Genesis 1:3 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 1:3

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

KJV

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YLT

and God saith, `Let light be;' and light is.

ASV

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

DBT

AndGod said, Let there be light. And there was light.

WEB

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
John 1:5
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Isaiah 60:19
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
1 John 1:5
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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), and there was light; but this was, as it were, a chaos of light, scattered and confused: now it was collected and modelled, and made into several luminaries, and so rendered both more glorious and more serviceable.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But by the command of God, light was rendered visible; the thick murky clouds were dispersed, broken, or rarefied, and light diffused over the expanse of waters. The effect is described in the name "day," which in Hebrew signifies "warmth," "heat"; while the name "night" signifies a "rolling up," as night wraps all things in a shady mantle.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

The manner how this work was effected; God created, that is, made it out of nothing. There was not any pre-existent matter out of which the world was produced.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Quotation 2 Corinthians 4:6
Paul reads 'Let there be light' as the pattern of regeneration: the God who commanded light out of darkness 'hath shined in our hearts.'
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)
Quotation Metalepsis 2 Corinthians 4:6
Paul casts conversion as a new Genesis: 'God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts.'
Beale-Carson CNTUOT (2007, cite-only); OpenBible high-vote link

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