Genesis 1:18

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 31:35 : 35 Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:
  • Ps 19:6 : 6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, And his circuit unto the ends of it; And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

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    1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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    4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

    5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

    6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

    7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

    8And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

    9And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

    10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

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    25And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

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    5And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.