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.

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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 God divided between the light + 1:4 Gr. and between the darkness. Hebraism.and the darkness.

6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

Genesis 1:23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

Genesis 8:22All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night.

Isaiah 45:7I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.

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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