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 1:18 in other translations
| BSB | to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. |
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| WEB | and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that it is good; |
| DARBY | and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Genesis 1:18 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 1:14-19
In the fourth day's work, the creation of the sun, moon, and stars is accounted for. All these are the works of God. The stars are spoken of as they appear to our eyes, without telling their number, nature, place, size, or motions; for the Scriptures were written, not to gratify curiosity, or make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints. The lights of heaven are made to serve him; they do it…
Genesis 1:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 1:18
- Jeremiah 31:35
Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:
- Psalms 19:6
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Genesis 1:17
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
- 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 1:19
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y para señorear en el día y en la noche, y para apartar la luz y las tinieblas: y vió Dios que era bueno. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et pour dominer de jour et de nuit, et pour séparer la lumière d’avec les ténèbres. Et Dieu vit que cela était bon. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und um zu herrschen am Tage und in der Nacht und das Licht von der Finsternis zu scheiden. Und Gott sah, daß es gut war. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et præessent diei ac nocti, et dividerent lucem ac tenebras. Et vidit Deus quod esset bonum. |