Genesis 1:5
God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
6And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”
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 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
Psalms 74:16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
1 Corinthians 3:13his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
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 →