Genesis 1:5

And Elohim called the light Yom (Day), and the darkness He called Lailah (Night). And the erev (evening) and the boker (morning) were Yom Echad - 1:5 Mk 16:2 (Day One, the First Day).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Elohim saw the light, that it was tov (good); and Elohim divided the ohr (light) from the choshech (darkness).

6And Elohim said, Let there be a raki'a (expanse, dome, firmament) in the midst of the mayim (waters), and let it divide the mayim from the mayim.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13And the erev and the boker were Yom Shlishi (Day Three, the Third Day). + 1:13 Ex 19:11,15-16; Josh 1:11; Num 19:11-16; Jon 2:1; Hos 6:2; 2Kgs 20:5,8; Ezra 6:15; 1C 15:4,20; Notice on Yom HaShlishi (The Third Day, Gn 1:13) is Yom HaBikkurim of the Bria HaOlam, the Firstfruits of the Creation of the World; just as Hos 6:2 indicates Yom HaShlishi is the time marker of the Techiyas HaMesim (Resurrection of the Dead), so Yom HaBikkurim fell on Nisan 16, and became a time marker delineating the countdown from the Resurrection of Moshiach Nisan 16, 3793 (33 C.E.) to Shavuos, 3793 and the Matan HaTevilah BeRuach Hakodesh. Lv 23:11.

Genesis 1:23And the erev and the boker were Yom Chamishi (Day Five, the Fifth Day).

Genesis 8:22While ha'aretz remaineth, 1 zera (seedtime) and katzir (harvest), 1 and kor (cold) and chom (heat), 1 and kayitz (summer) and choref (winter), 1 and yom and lailah, shall not cease.

Psalms 74:16The yom is Thine, the lailah also is Thine; 1 Thou hast prepared the ma'ohr (luminary, moon) and the shemesh. 1

Isaiah 45:7I form ohr, and create choshech; 1 I make shalom, and create rah; 1 I Hashem worketh all these things. 1

1 Corinthians 3:13The ma'aseh (work) of each bannai will become evident, for, haYom + 3:13 Yom haDin will make it have its hisgalus, because by Eish (Fire) it is revealed; and the Eish (Fire) itself will test the quality of each oneʼs ma'aseh. + 3:13 Num 31:22,23; Jer 23:28,29; Mal 3:3

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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