Genesis 1:18

And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and Elohim saw that it was tov.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Elohim set them in the raki'a of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

19And the erev and the boker were Yom Revi'i (Day Four, the Fourth Day).

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Cross References

Jeremiah 31:35If those chukkim depart from before Me, saith Hashem, 1 then the Zera Yisroel also shall cease 1 from being a Goy (Nation) before Me forever. 1

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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