Genesis 1:18
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
19And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:35Thus saith the LORD, Who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof 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 →