Genesis 1:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 1:18 : 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 1:12 : 12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
  • Eccl 2:13 : 13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
  • Eccl 11:7 : 7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.
  • Gen 1:10 : 10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 1:25 : 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

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  • Gen 1:5-27
    23 verses
    92%

    5God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

    6God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

    7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

    8God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

    9God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

    10God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

    11God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

    12The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

    13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

    14God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

    15and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

    16God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

    17God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

    18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

    19There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

    20God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

    21God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

    22God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

    23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

    24God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

    25God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

    26God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

    27God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

  • Gen 1:1-3
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    87%

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

    2Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

    3God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

  • Gen 1:31
    75%

    31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

  • John 1:1-5
    5 verses
    74%

    1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

    2The same was in the beginning with God.

    3All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

    4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

    5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

  • Jer 4:23
    73%

    23I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

  • 1 John 1:5
    72%

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

  • 2 Cor 4:6
    71%

    6seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  • John 1:9-10
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    70%

    9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

    10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    70%

    11If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

    12even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

  • Gen 2:3-4
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    70%

    3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

    4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

  • Exod 14:20-21
    2 verses
    67%

    20It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.

    21Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

  • Ps 74:16
    67%

    16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

  • Eccl 11:7
    67%

    7Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

  • Job 17:12
    67%

    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • Ps 104:20
    67%

    20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

  • Ps 19:1
    67%

    1The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.