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καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τοὺς δύο φωστῆρας τοὺς μεγάλους, τὸν φωστῆρα τὸν μέγαν εἰς ἀρχὰς τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ τὸν φωστῆρα τὸν ἐλάσσω εἰς ἀρχὰς τῆς νυκτός, καὶ τοὺς ἀστέρας.
The sun and moon are made but, strikingly, never named as such — only “the greater light” and “the lesser light,” ruling by turn. ἀρχάς, “dominion/rule,” is the very word ἀρχή from 1:1 now in its other common sense — not “beginning” but “principality, government” (compare Luke 12:11, Titus 3:1, of civil “rulers”).
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