Genesis 1:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

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  • Gen 1:18 : 18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 1:12 : 12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
  • Eccl 2:13 : 13 Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.
  • Eccl 11:7 : 7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
  • Gen 1:10 : 10 And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 1:25 : 25 And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

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  • Gen 1:5-27
    23 verses
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    5Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

    6And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

    7And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

    8And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

    9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

    10And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

    11And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

    12And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

    13And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

    14And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

    15And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

    16And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

    17And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

    18To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

    19And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

    20And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.

    21And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.

    22And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

    23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

    24And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

    25And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

    26And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

    27And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

  • Gen 1:1-3
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    1At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

    2And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

    3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

  • 31And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

  • John 1:1-5
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    1From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

    2This Word was from the first in relation with God.

    3All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

    4What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.

    5And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

  • 23Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

  • 5This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

  • 6Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  • John 1:9-10
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    9The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.

    10He was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world had no knowledge of him.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Gen 2:3-4
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    3And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

    4These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

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    20And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night.

    21And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

  • 16The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

  • 7Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

  • 12They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • 20When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

  • 1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.