Genesis 1:4 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 1:4

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

KJV

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YLT

And God seeth the light that it is good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,

ASV

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

DBT

AndGod saw the light that it was good; andGod divided between the light and the darkness.

WEB

And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

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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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9 verses on the floor

Ecclesiastes 2:13
Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
Ecclesiastes 11:7
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
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.
Genesis 1:31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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That the light was made by the word of God's power; He said, Let there be light - He willed it, and it was done; there was light - Such a copy as exactly answered the original idea in the eternal mind.

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

God has thus divided between light and darkness, because he would daily mind us that this is a world of mixtures and changes. In heaven there is perpetual light, and no darkness; in hell utter darkness, and no light: but in this world they are counter-changed, and we pass daily from one to another; that we may learn to expect the like vicissitudes in the providence of God.

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

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Thread Revelation 21:23
God who divided light from darkness at creation becomes himself the city's light, no created sun needed.
Beale, NTBT (2011, cite-only)

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