Genesis 1:18
and to rule over the day as well as the night, and to divide light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17And he set them in the firmament of heaven, to give light over all the earth,
19And it became evening and morning, the fourth day.
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:35Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun as the light of the day, who puts the moon and the stars in order as the light of the night, who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar: the Lord of hosts 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 →