Genesis 1:5

calling the light ‘day’ and the darkness ‘night’. There was an evening and a morning, making the first day.

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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

In Context

4God saw that the light was good. He separated the light from the darkness,

6Then God said, “Let there be a dome between the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13There was an evening and a morning, making the third day.

Genesis 1:23There was an evening and a morning, making the fifth day.

Genesis 8:22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not cease.”

Psalms 74:16Yours is the day; yours, too, is the night, it was you who did establish the sun and the star.

1 Corinthians 3:13the quality of each man’s work will become known, for the day will make it plain; because that day is to be ushered in with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of every man’s work.

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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