Genesis 1:5

He called the light, day time and he called the dark, night time. Night time came, and that was the end of day one.

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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

4God looked at the light, and he saw that it was good. Then God cut the light away from the dark.

6God said, “I want to cut all the water that I made into 2 parts, and I will put air in between them, and I will call the air, sky. One lot of water will be on top of the sky and the other lot of water will be under the sky.” Night time came, and that was the end of day 2.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13Night time came, and that was the end of day 3.

Genesis 1:23Night time came, and that was the end of day 5.

Genesis 8:22While the earth is still here, everything will be the same. There will always be day time and night time, and every year there will be a hot weather time and a cold weather time, wet weather time and dry weather time. There will always be a right time to plant seeds for food and a right time to get the food from those plants.”

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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