Genesis 1:5

God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” This was evening and morning, the first day.

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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

In Context

4God saw the light, that it was good. He divided the light from the darkness.

6God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13This was evening and morning, the third day.

Genesis 1:23This was evening and morning, the fifth day.

Genesis 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, 1 summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

Psalms 74:16The day is yours, and the night is yours also; 1 you set the sun and moon in place. 1

Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create darkness; 1 I bring peace and create disaster; I am Yahweh, who does all these things. 1

1 Corinthians 3:13his work will be revealed, for the daylight will reveal it. For it will be revealed in fire. The fire will test the quality of what each one had done.

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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