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22 Bible Verses About the Moon

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  • Genesis 1:16 calls the moon “the lesser light to govern the night,” and Genesis 1:14 gives the lights the task of marking sacred times, days and years.
  • Deuteronomy 4:19 forbids bowing down to the sun, moon and stars, and Job 31:26-28 calls a kiss of homage to the moon unfaithfulness to God.
  • Psalm 81:3 and Numbers 10:10 tie Israel’s feasts to the New Moon, and Colossians 2:16-17 calls a New Moon celebration “a shadow of the things that were to come.”
  • Joel 2:31 speaks of the moon turned “to blood” before the day of the Lord, and Peter quotes the passage at Pentecost in Acts 2:20.
  • Revelation 21:23 describes a city that needs neither sun nor moon, as Isaiah 60:19-20 had promised of Zion.

The Bible treats the moon as a light God made and set in place, and forbids Israel to worship it. Genesis 1:16 calls it “the lesser light to govern the night,” Psalm 104:19 says God “made the moon to mark the seasons,” and Deuteronomy 4:19 forbids bowing down to it. Jeremiah 31:35-36 and Psalm 72:5 use the moon as a measure of what lasts. Joel 2:31 says it will turn “to blood” before the day of the Lord, and in…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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