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Genesis 1:5

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

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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

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

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

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

Genesis 1:23There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

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. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

1 Corinthians 3:13each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

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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