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Selected Verse: Genesis 1:4 - Douay Rheims

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Ge 1:4 Douay Rheims And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness.
  King James And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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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16 And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.