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Genesis 1:5

He named the darkness, 'night-that', the light he named, 'day-that'. After that it became night, after that it became dawn. Another day appeared/arrived.

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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

4When he saw it he said, “Good”. He separated the light and the darkness.

6Then he said, “Sky become, in order to separate the water and the clouds!”

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13After that it became night, after that it became dawn. Another day appeared.

Genesis 1:23After that it became night, after that it became dawn. Another day appeared.

Genesis 8:22Now summer and winter will follow each other. Heat and cold will follow each other. Day and night will follow each other. Just like that they will be.”

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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