Devine Scripture

Genesis 1:4

Genesis chapter 1 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

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

v.4This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 1:10

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

  • Genesis 1:31

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

  • 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 1:12

    And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

  • Ecclesiastes 11:7

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

  • Ecclesiastes 2:13

    Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.