Genesis 1:5

and God called the light, day, but the darkness, called he, night. So it was evening—and it was morning, one day.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 divided the light, from the, darkness;

6And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a means of dividing, between waters and waters,

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13So it was evening—and it was morning, a third day.

Genesis 1:23So it was evening—and it was morning, a fifth day.

Genesis 8:22During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

Psalms 74:16Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and sun;

Isaiah 45:7Forming light and creating darkness, Making prosperity, and creating misfortune,—I—Yahweh, who doeth all these.

1 Corinthians 3:13Each one’s work, shall be made, manifest; for, the day, will make it plain, because, by fire, is it to be revealed,—and, each one’s work, of what sort it is, the fire itself will prove:—

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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