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Selected Verse: Genesis 1:4 - Young's Literal

Verse         Translation Text
Ge 1:4 Young's Literal And God seeth the light that `it is' good, and God separateth between the light and 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 maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of the night;