Genesis 1:5
He called the light day time, and he called the dark night time. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 1.
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4God looked at it, and he saw that it was good. So God split up the light and the dark.
6Then God said, “I want something to split the water in half.”
Cross References
Genesis 1:13After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 3.
Genesis 1:23After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 5.
1 Corinthians 3:13One day, Jesus Christ will come back, and then God will show which workers did a good job, like the fire in the picture story shows if part of the house is good or not.
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 →