"God said, there will be lights in the sky of heaven, to separate between the day and the night ..." [Genesis 1:14]In the 4th day God created two lights, the sun and the moon.
When they were created, there were two lights of worth in size.
Together they rose with dawn, together they sailed themself in the sky, bringing blessing of the light to all the growing that already were created, together scattered light from height.But after short period of partnership, the moon began to jealous in the sun.
The moon thought in his heart, which our two, the sun and I, truely worth?
If light of the sun is beautiful and shine like my light?
If I am not more successful than the sun?
Why he is trailing along after me all the time?The moon went and complained before the God.
The moon said: " Lord of world, this is not right, and also not possible, that two kings will use with one crown."
God understood intention of the moon, and was very angry to him on his jealousy.
God said to moon: "truely, moon, you are right.
In truth two lights can not use with one crown.
Therefore you, moon, will abandan on your crown in the day, and will govern on the light in the day.
The sun - he will govern in the day."The moon was frightened, here is, he knew that in night it not need in light almost, and therefore his light will be small, and there will be pale from light of the sun.
And here is, it is not like this prepared when come to complain...
And God continued: " From now, the moon, you will be called ' the small light'."The moon began to regret and cry, what is in the total the all he beg?
Why just it is this that there will be the small light?
Certainly the sun will laugh the moon in light of the shine sun ... and how the sun will see the face of the moon with name like this - "the small light", when the sun will rotate exaggerating with pride, "the large light"...
The rebel moon sobbed, being angry on all, being angry on himself.
But it is not return the made.The God saw many sorrow of the moon, and grew hot pity for the moon.
God reversed all of shed rebel tears, that dripped from eyes of the moon, to star in end.
And all that the moon swept, yes increased the stars.
Stars surrounded mostly the moon, setted in around the moon, and escorted the moon in all night, shinning and winking, bowing head of them to honor of the moon.The moon rejoiced, and advanced in blessing with the many stars, in basis because that there were only decoration and not threw light on, and gave the moon to feel that the moon is king of the night.
The moon was happy, and felt like leader, commander on army the surrounded always with escorts and with advisers, with workers and with soldiers, the doing all that will desire.
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