Genesis 1:18
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.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
17And God set them in the expanse of the heavens,—to give light on the earth;
19So it was evening—and it was morning, a fourth day.
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:35Thus, saith Yahweh—Who hath given the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,—Who excited the sea, and the waves thereof roared Yahweh of hosts, is his name:—
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 →