Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.
Cross References
Genesis 1:13And there was evening, and there was morning a third day.
Genesis 1:23And there was evening, and there was morning a fifth day.
Genesis 8:22Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed [time] and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Psalms 74:16The day is thine, the night also is thine; *thou* hast prepared the moon and the sun:
Isaiah 45:7forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.
1 Corinthians 3:13the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare [it], because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what 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 →