Genesis 1:3
God said, “I want light to shine!” And light shone.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
In Context
Cross References
Job 38:19“Where is the road to the place where light comes from? And can you tell me where darkness lives?
Psalms 33:9When he spoke, the world ◄was created/started to exist►. Everything started to exist as a result of him commanding it.
Psalms 104:2You created/caused light to be like your robe [MET]. You spread out the sky like a man sets up a tent.
Psalms 148:5I want all of these to praise Yahweh [MTY] because by commanding them to exist, he created them.
Isaiah 60:19And you will no longer need the sun and moon to give you light, because I, Yahweh, will give you more light than the sun and moon; I will be a glorious light for you forever.
John 1:5People do not want him to reveal that what they do is evil [MET], just like darkness is evil. But just like darkness cannot put out light [MET], evil people have never prevented the one who was like a light from revealing God’s truth (OR, evil people have never understood the one who was like a light.)
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 →