Genesis 1:5
God called the light “day,” and he called the darkness “night.” So there was evening, and then the morning, making day one.
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4God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters to divide the waters.”
Cross References
Genesis 1:13So there was evening, and then the morning, making day three.
Genesis 1:23So there was evening, and then the morning, making day five.
Genesis 8:22As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never come to an end.”
Psalms 74:16You created the day, and also the night; you made the moon and the sun.
Isaiah 45:7I create light, and I make darkness, I bring peace and I bring about disaster. I am the Lord and I do all this.
1 Corinthians 3:13but whatever is used to build with will be exposed. For on the Day of Judgment, fire will reveal it and test it. Everyone's work will be shown for what 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 →