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Genesis 1:4

God looked at the light, and he saw that it was good. Then God cut the light away from the dark.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

3God said, “I want light,” and straight away light was shining everywhere.

5He called the light, day time and he called the dark, night time. Night time came, and that was the end of day one.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:10God called the dry ground, land. And he called the water, sea. God looked at the land and the sea and he saw that they were good.

Genesis 1:18One light shines in the day time and the other light shines at night time. Those lights show people when it is day time and when it is night time. God looked at all the lights and he saw that they were good.

Genesis 1:31God looked at all the things he made, and he saw that they were really good. Night time came. That was the end of day 6.

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 →

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