the moon
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4For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.
38and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.
12And when he had opened the sixth seal, I saw, and behold, a great earthquake occurred. And the sun became black, like a haircloth sack, and the entire moon became like blood.
14Then God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and years.
19He has made the moon for seasons; the sun knows its setting.
20The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord arrives.
31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall arrive.
9Likewise, he saw another dream, which he explained to his brothers, saying, “I saw by a dream, as if the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars were reverencing me.”
16And God made two great lights: a greater light, to rule over the day, and a lesser light, to rule over the night, along with the stars.
19Otherwise, perhaps lifting up your eyes to heaven, you might look upon the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error, you might adore and worship these things, which the Lord your God created for the service of all the nations, which are under heaven.