Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night also with the stars (Genesis 1:16).
God created the sun to give light in the firmament by day, and the moon to rule the night along with the stars. The two great lights are formed here, not the stars, for they had already existed when God created the universe as a dwelling place for the spirit beings—the first act of creation. From this point forward, while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease (Genesis 8:22).