Genesis 1:23

And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

In Context

22And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.'

24And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.' And it was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:8And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:21-24

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the… Read the whole commentary →

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