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On the fourth day the sun, the moon and the stars: the lights come after the light.
KJV (Genesis 1:16): “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.”
The mechanism
THE ORDER HOLDS — light first, the sun later
How it was checked
- EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: ADDED 2026-09-18
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Die Bibel in Bildern, 1860 · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_004.png
- SourcesSCRIPTURE — Genesis 1:16 (KJV, checked 18 September)
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