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Genesis 1:4

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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.

5And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:10And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:31And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Ecclesiastes 11:7And the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold 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 →

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