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5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
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5 And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it.
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5 The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it]. [Gen 1:3]
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5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
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5 And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.
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5 And that light shineth in the darkenesse, and the darkenesse comprehended it not.
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5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcomeit.
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5 The light shines in the darkness. But the darkness has not overcome the light.
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5 The light shines in the dark, and the dark cannot put out the light.
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5 and the light shined in the darkness, and the darkness did not perceive it.
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