Genesis 1:5

And God called the light day, and the darknes night: and the euenyng & the mornyng were the first 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 sawe the lyght that it was good: and God deuided the lyght from the darknes.

6And God said: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13And God sawe that it was good. And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day.

Genesis 1:23And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day.

Genesis 8:22Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest, colde and heate, sommer and wynter, day and nyght, ceasse all the dayes of the earth.

Isaiah 45:7It is I that created light and darknesse, I make peace and trouble: yea euen I the Lorde do all these thinges.

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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