GEN 1:18 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=important (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX καὶ ἄρχειν τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ τῆς νυκτὸς, καὶ διαχωρίζειν ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ φωτὸς, καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ σκότους· καὶ εἶδεν ὁ Θεὸς ὅτι καλόν.
(kai arⱪein taʸs haʸmeras kai taʸs nuktos, kai diaⱪōrizein ana meson tou fōtos, kai ana meson tou skotous; kai eiden ho Theos hoti kalon. )

BrTr and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

ULT and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

UST to shine during the daytime or during the nighttime, and to divide the light from the darkness. God observed that what he had made was excellent.

BSB to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that [it was] good.

OEB to rule over the day and over the night,
⇔ and to separate light from darkness.
⇔ God saw that it was good.

WEBBE and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

LSV and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God sees that [it is] good;

FBV to be in charge of the day and in charge of the night, and to separate light from darkness. God saw that it was good.

T4T to rule the day and the night, and to separate the light of the daytime from the darkness of the nighttime. God was pleased with these things he had made.

LEB No LEB GEN book available

BBE To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

Moff No Moff GEN book available

JPS and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

ASV and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

DRA And to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

YLT and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that [it is] good;

Drby and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And [fn]God saw that it was good.

1.18 Elohim

RV and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

SLT And to rule in the day and in the night, and to separate between the light and between the darkness: And God will see that it is good.

Wbstr And to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

KJB-1769 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

KJB-1611 And to rule ouer the day, and ouer the night, and to diuide the light from the darkenesse: and God saw that it was good.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps No Bshps GEN book available

Gnva And to rule in the day, and in the night, and to separate the light from the darkenesse: and God saw that it was good.
(And to rule in the day, and in the night, and to separate the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. )

Cvdl No Cvdl GEN book available

Wycl No Wycl GEN book available

Luth No Luth GEN book available

ClVg et præessent diei ac nocti, et dividerent lucem ac tenebras. Et vidit Deus quod esset bonum.
(and beforeessent of_the_day and nocti, and dividerent the_light and darkness. And he_saw God that was good. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT GEN book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

וְ⁠לִ⁠מְשֹׁל֙ בַּ⁠יּ֣וֹם וּ⁠בַ⁠לַּ֔יְלָה

and=to=rule in_the=day and=in_the=night

Make sure that your translation of the word day refers here to the daytime hours, not an entire 24-hour day. Also see how you translated rule in 1:16. Alternate translation: [and to dominate the daytime or the nighttime] or [and to shine during the daytime and during the nighttime]

וּֽ⁠לֲ⁠הַבְדִּ֔יל בֵּ֥ין הָ⁠א֖וֹר וּ⁠בֵ֣ין הַ⁠חֹ֑שֶׁךְ

and=to=separate between the=light and=between the=darkness

Consider again how you translated separate in verses 4, 6-7, 14 and 18. Alternate translation: [and to distinguish the light from the darkness] or [and to separate the time of light from the time of darkness]

וַ⁠יַּ֥רְא אֱלֹהִ֖ים

and=he/it_saw ʼElohīm

Alternate translation: [And he saw] or [He saw]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

כִּי־טֽוֹב

that/for/because/then/when good

Some languages need to specify what was good. Do what is best in your language. Alternate translation: [that what he had made was good] or [that the lights in the sky were good]

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