Genesis 1:4

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

Cross-references

Genesis 1:18 repeats both the 'saw that it was good' refrain and the light-darkness separation from 1:4, now assigned to sun and moon.

Genesis 1:31 escalates the refrain to 'very good' — the culmination of what began with God seeing that light alone was 'good.'

Genesis 1:10 repeats the same evaluative refrain — 'God saw that it was good' — now applied to land and seas, continuing the pattern begun with light.

Genesis 1:12 carries forward the same 'God saw that it was good' refrain, now applied to vegetation — part of the creation account's repeated pattern.

Genesis 1:25 continues the repeated 'God saw that it was good' refrain, now applied to the animal creatures of the fifth and sixth days.

Job 38:19 Allusion

Job 38:19 echoes this creation act — God challenges Job about where light dwells and darkness resides, referencing His own division of them.

Psalm 104:20 describes God making darkness for nighttime — the very darkness God separated from light in creation.

Ecclesiastes 2:13 echoes the Genesis separation of light and darkness, affirming in wisdom terms that light surpasses darkness.

Ecclesiastes 11:7 Related theme

In Ecclesiastes 11:7, light is celebrated as sweet and pleasant — echoing God's declaration in creation that light was good.