Genesis 1:3 KJV

Genesis · chapter 1 · verse 3

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.Genesis 1:3 · King James Version

Genesis 1:3 in context

1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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

4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

We have here a further account of the first day's work, in which observe, 1. That the first of all visible beings which God created was light;

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-5