Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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: Be light made. And light was made.
5And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.
Cross References
Genesis 1:10And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:18And to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:31And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.
Ecclesiastes 11:7The light is sweet, and it is delightful 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 →