Genesis 1:3

God said, “I want light.” Straight away, light was shining everywhere.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

In Context

2The earth didn’t have any shape. It didn’t have anything. It was covered with deep water. Everything was dark. It was dark all over the water, but God’s spirit moved around on the top of the water.

4God looked at it, and he saw that it was good. So God split up the light and the dark.

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Cross References

John 1:5That light shines out into the darkness and makes everything clear, and the darkness can’t put it out.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:2-3

Genesis to Deuteronomy PREFACE Genesis to Deuteronomy Though it is most my concern, that I be able to give a good account to God and my own conscience, yet, perhaps, it will be expected that I give the world also some account of this bold undertaking; which I shall endeavour to do with all plainness, and as one who believes, that if men must be reckoned with in the great day, for every vain and idle word they speak, much more for every vain and idle line they write. And it may be of use, in the first place, to lay… Read the whole commentary →

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