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The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version is unavailable, but you can change that!

Though it is the most important book in the religious life and the culture of the English-speaking world, the King James Bible or Authorised Version of 1611 has never been perfectly represented in print as the translators intended. David Norton’s edition, first published in 2005, aims to address two main concerns with the standard editions as currently printed. First, what we now read as the...

And God said, ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night: and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth’: and it was so. 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. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over...
Genesis 1:14–19