Genesis 1:5
God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night”. + 1:5 Day 1: God creates the division of shamayim ·sky, heaven· and 'aretz ·earth·; then God separates 'owr ·light· out of the choshek ·darkness·. The 'owr ·light· part of the day is called yom ·period of time, daytime, day· and the dark part of the day is called layil ·night·. There was evening and there was morning, the first yom ·period of time, day·. + 1:5 The Hebrew word yom can be translated in five different ways. Daylight (12 hours), a single day (24 hours), a year, or an indefinite amount of time pointing to a day or event, such as Psalm 27:5 “in that day”.
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4God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
Cross References
Genesis 1:13There was evening and there was morning, a third yom ·period of time, day·. (A:2)
Genesis 1:23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth 'yom ·period of time, day·. (A:3)
Genesis 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
Psalms 74:16The day is yours, the night is also yours. 2 You have prepared the light and the sun. 1
Isaiah 45:7I form the light, 2 and create darkness. 1 I make peace, 2 and create calamity. 1 I am Adonai, 2 who does all these things. 1
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 →