KJV King James Version
And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
WEB World English Bible
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
ASV American Standard Version
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And God seeth the light that it is good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,
Surrounding context — Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And 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.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיַּ֧רְאH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeאֱלֹהִ֛יםH430 · e.lo.himGodאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָא֖וֹרH216 · orlightכִּי־H3588 · kiforט֑וֹבH2895 · tovbe pleasingוַיַּבְדֵּ֣לH914 · ba.dalto separateאֱלֹהִ֔יםH430 · e.lo.himGodבֵּ֥יןH996 · ba.yinbetweenהָא֖וֹרH216 · orlightוּבֵ֥יןH996 · ba.yinbetweenהַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃H2822 · cho.shekhdarkness
Cross-references
Ecclesiastes 2:13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.Ecclesiastes 11:7Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun:Genesis 1:18And 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 1:31And 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 1:12And 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.Genesis 1:10And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.Genesis 1:25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
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