Genesis 1:5
And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness.
Cross References
Genesis 1:13And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Genesis 1:23And the evening and morning were the fifth day.
Genesis 8:22All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.
Psalms 74:16Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.
Isaiah 45:7I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.
1 Corinthians 3:13Every man's work shall be manifest; for the day of the Lord shall declare it, because it shall be revealed in fire; and the fire shall try every man's work, of what sort 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 →