Genesis 1:5

And the Lord called the light the Day, and the darkness He called the Night. And there was evening, and there was morning, Day the First.

Targum Onkelos

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 the Lord saw the light that it was good. And the Lord distinguished between the light and between the darkness.

6And the Lord said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it distinguish between waters and waters.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13And it was evening, and it was morning, Day the Third.

Genesis 1:23And it was evening, and it was morning, Day the Fifth.

Genesis 8:22Yet all the days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

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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