Genesis 1:5

And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 the light from the darkness.

6And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'

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Cross References

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

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

Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.'

Psalms 74:16Thine is the day, Thine also the night; Thou hast established luminary and sun.

Isaiah 45:7I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth 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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