What does the Bible say about astronomy?

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• 1 Corinthians 15:41

  There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

• Psalms 8:3

  When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

• Amos 5:8

  Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, And turns the shadow of death into the morning, And makes the day dark with night; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

• Psalms 147:4

  He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.

• Job 26:7

  He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing.

• Psalms 19:1

  > The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

• Isaiah 40:22

  [It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;

• Job 38:31-33

  [31] "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loosen the cords of Orion? [32] Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs? [33] Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion of it over the earth?

• Isaiah 13:10

  For the stars of the sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.

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