Genesis 1:18

and to rule the daye and the nyghte ad to devyde the lyghte from darcknesse. And god sawe yt it was good:

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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

17And God put them in the fyrmament of heaven to shyne vpon the erth

19and so of the evenynge ad mornynge was made the fourth daye.

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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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