8 These four great works God created on the third day. And on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon all the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and divide the light from the darkness. (JUB) 9 And God appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and for sabbaths and for months and for feasts and for years and for sabbaths of years and for jubilees and for all seasons of the years. (JUB) 10 And it divideth the light from the darkness [and] for prosperity, that all things may prosper which shoot and grow on the earth. (JUB)
Book of Jubilees 2:8–10
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