Genesis 1:5

and God calls the light “Day,” and the darkness He has called “Night”; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—day one.

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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 sees that the light [is] good, and God separates between the light and the darkness,

6And God says, “Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.”

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] third day.

Genesis 1:23and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] fifth day.

Genesis 8:22during all [the] days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night never cease.”

Psalms 74:16The day [is] Yours, || The night [is] also Yours, || You have prepared a light-giver—the sun.

Isaiah 45:7Forming light, and creating darkness, || Making peace, and creating calamity, || I [am] YHWH, doing all these things.

1 Corinthians 3:13the work will become visible of each, for the day will declare [it], because it is revealed in fire, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire will prove;

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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