Genesis 1:5

And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

4And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses.

6God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13And it became evening and the morning, the third day.

Genesis 1:23And it became evening and morning, the fifth day.

Genesis 8:22All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.”

Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness. I make peace and create disaster. I, the Lord, do all these things.

1 Corinthians 3:13each one’s work shall be made manifest. For the day of the Lord shall declare it, because it will be revealed by fire. And this fire will test each one’s work, as to what kind it is.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:4-6

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And 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; not that by it he himself might see to work (for the darkness and light are both… Read the whole commentary →

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