Genesis 1:5

And God called the Light, Day, and the darkenes, he called Night. So the euening and the morning were the first day.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

4And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkenes.

6Againe God said, Let there be a firmament in the mids of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13So the euening and the morning were the third day.

Genesis 1:23So the euening and the morning were the fifte day.

Genesis 8:22Hereafter seede time and haruest, and colde and heate, and sommer and winter, and day and night shall not cease, so long as ye earth remaineth.

Psalms 74:16The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.

Isaiah 45:7I forme the light and create darkenes: I make peace and create euill: I the Lord doe all these things.

1 Corinthians 3:13Euery mans worke shalbe made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shalbe reueiled by the fire: and the fire shall trie euery mans worke of what sort it 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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