Genesis 1:4

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.”

— WEB

“And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”

— KJV

“And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”

— ASV

Cross-references

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Ecclesiastes 2:13 "Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness."
Ecclesiastes 11:7 "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun."
Genesis 1:18 "and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good."
Genesis 1:31 "God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day."
Genesis 1:12 "The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God…"
Genesis 1:10 "God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good."
Genesis 1:25 "God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after it…"

Commentary

divided the light from darkness--refers to the alternation or succession of the one to the other, produced by the daily revolution of the earth round its axis.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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