Genesis 1:23

There was an evening and a morning, making the fifth day.

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In The King James Version

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

In Context

22He blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, increase, fill the oceans, and let the birds increase on the land.”

24Then God said, “Let the earth produce all kinds of living creatures: cattle and reptiles and wild beasts.” It was so.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:8God called the dome the ‘sky’. There was an evening and a morning, making the second day.

Mark 14:30“I tell you,” answered Jesus, “that you yourself today – yes, this very night – before the cock crows twice, will disown me three times.”

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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