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Genesis 1:18
Genesis 1:18 is verse 18 of Genesis chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
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Genesis 1:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
17 God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,
18 to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
20 And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 19:6it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
Jeremiah 31:35Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name: