Genesis 1:4 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Genesis 1:4

2 The earth was ^awithout form, and void; and darkness¹ was on the face of the deep. ^bAnd the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

3 ^aThen God said, ^b“Let there be ^clight”; and there was light.

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

5 God called the light Day, and the ^adarkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 Then God said, ^a“Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

7 Thus God made the firmament, ^aand divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were ^babove the firmament; and it was so.

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Genesis 1:4

divided the light from darkness—refers to the alternation or succession of the one to the other, produced by the daily revolution of the earth round its axis.

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