Genesis 1:3 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And God said: Be light made. And light was made.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Common English Bible

³ God said, “Let there be light.” And so light appeared.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And God said, "Let there be light." And light became.

English Standard Version 2016

³ And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Genesis 1:3 Cross References

Genesis 2:4

These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:

Job 36:30

And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.

Job 38:19

Where is the way where light dwelleth; and where is the place of darkness?

Psalm 104:2

Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.

Psalm 118:27

Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.

Psalm 148:5

praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: he commanded, and they were created.

Psalm 33:6

Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.

Psalm 33:9

O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I, the Lord, that do all these things.

Isaiah 60:19

Thou shalt no more have the sun for thy light by day, neither shall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting light, and thy God for thy glory.

Matthew 8:3

And Jesus stretching forth his hand, touched him, saying: I will, be thou made clean. And forthwith his leprosy was cleansed.

John 1:5

And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1:9

That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.

John 11:43

When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.

John 3:19

And this is the judgment: because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 5:14

Wherefore he saith: Rise thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

Ephesians 5:8

For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

1 Timothy 6:16

Who only hath immortality, and inhabiteth light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

1 John 1:5

And this is the declaration which we have heard from him, and declare unto you: That God is light, and in him there is no darkness.

1 John 2:8

Again a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true both in him and in you; because the darkness is passed, and the true light now shineth.