Genesis 1:18
To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
17And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;
19And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:35These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:15-20
The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 14 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: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 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. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,… Read the whole commentary →