Genesis 1:4
And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
In Context
3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Cross References
Genesis 1:10And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:18To 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.
Genesis 1:31And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Ecclesiastes 11:7Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:4-6
The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. We have here a further account of the first day's work, in which observe, 1. That the first of all visible beings which God created was light; not that by it he himself might see to work (for the darkness and light are both… Read the whole commentary →