Genesis 1:4

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

3+ 1:3. MP: Light from God. (John 3:19-20; 1 John 3:8) God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. + 1:3 This light that separates the darkness, God spoke the light of Messiah to be our redemption out from darkness even before the foundations of the world. (Col 1:12-17) says we were called out of Satan’s darkness into God’s light thru Messiah’s redemption.

5God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night”. + 1:5 Day 1: God creates the division of shamayim ·sky, heaven· and 'aretz ·earth·; then God separates 'owr ·light· out of the choshek ·darkness·. The 'owr ·light· part of the day is called yom ·period of time, daytime, day· and the dark part of the day is called layil ·night·. There was evening and there was morning, the first yom ·period of time, day·. + 1:5 The Hebrew word yom can be translated in five different ways. Daylight (12 hours), a single day (24 hours), a year, or an indefinite amount of time pointing to a day or event, such as Psalm 27:5 “in that day”.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:10God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering together of the waters he called “sea”. 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. God saw that it was good. + 1:18 Day 4: God separates day and night with sun and moon called ma'or ·lights· and the chochavi'm ·stars·; this gives us 'owr ·light·. These lights help identify the mo'adim ·seasons, appointed times·. God’s calendar has both the harvest schedule and special feast days called mo'adim ·seasons, appointed times· (see Lev. 23).

Genesis 1:31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was m'ohd tov ·exceedingly good·. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth 'yom ·period of time, day·.

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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