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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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 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 →