Genesis 1:18

to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

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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

17God set them in the sky to give light upon the earth,

19This was evening and morning, the fourth day.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 31:35Yahweh says this, 2 it is he who makes the sun to shine by day 2 and fixes the moon and stars to shine by night. 1 He is the one who sets the sea in motion 2 so that its waves roar— 1 Yahweh of hosts is his name. 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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