Genesis 1:18

And to rule by day and by night, and to divide between the light and the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

17And God set them in the expansion of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

19And it was evening and it was morning, the fourth day.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 31:35(31:34) Thus hath said the Lord, who bestoweth the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea that 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 →

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