Genesis 1:13

Then there was another evening which was followed by another morning. God called that period of time ‘the third day’.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

In Context

12Then plants grew on the earth; each kind of plant began to produce its own kind of seed.

14Then God said, “I want a sun, a moon, and many stars to shine in the sky. The sun will shine in the daytime and the moon and stars will shine during the nighttime. By the changes in their appearance they will indicate the various seasons (OR, the times for special celebrations), and will enable people to know when days and years begin.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:8Then there was another evening, which was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the second day’.

Mark 14:30Then Jesus said to him, “The truth is that this very night, before the rooster crows a second time, you yourself will deny three times that you know me!”

Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:10-14

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding… Read the whole commentary →

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