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

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Mortals put an end to the darkness;(A)
    they search out the farthest recesses
    for ore in the blackest darkness.(B)

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He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

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“Who shut up the sea behind doors(A)
    when it burst forth from the womb,(B)
when I made the clouds its garment
    and wrapped it in thick darkness,(C)
10 when I fixed limits for it(D)
    and set its doors and bars in place,(E)
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;(F)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?(G)

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Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

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