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Genesis 1:4

And Elohim saw the light, that it was tov (good); and Elohim divided the ohr (light) from the choshech (darkness).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light. - 1:3 Ps 33:6,9

5And Elohim called the light Yom (Day), and the darkness He called Lailah (Night). And the erev (evening) and the boker (morning) were Yom Echad - 1:5 Mk 16:2 (Day One, the First Day).

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Cross References

Genesis 1:10And Elohim called the yabashah Eretz (Earth); and the mikveh (gathering together of the waters) called He Seas; and Elohim saw that it was tov.

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

Genesis 1:31And G-d saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was tov me'od (very good). And the erev and the boker were Yom Shishi (Day Six, the Sixth Day).

Ecclesiastes 11:7Truly the ohr is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eynayim to behold the shemesh;

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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