Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And it was evening and it was morning, the first day.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
4And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness.
Cross References
Genesis 1:13And it was evening and it was morning, the third day.
Genesis 1:23And it was evening and it was morning, the fifth day.
Genesis 8:22All the while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Psalms 74:16Thine is the day and thine is the night: it is thou who hast prepared the luminary and the sun.
Isaiah 45:7Forming the light, and creating darkness; making peace, and creating evil: I the Lord do 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 →