Genesis 1:5

and called the lyghte daye and the darcknesse nyghte: and so of the evenynge and mornynge was made the fyrst daye

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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 sawe the lyghte that it was good: and devyded the lyghte from the darcknesse

6And God sayd: let there be a fyrmament betwene the waters ad let it devyde the waters a sonder.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13and the of the evenynge and mornynge was made the thyrde daye.

Genesis 1:23And so of the evenynge and morninge was made the fyfth daye.

Genesis 8:22Nether shall sowynge tyme and harvest colde and hete somere and wynter daye and nyghte ceasse as longe as the erth endureth.

1 Corinthians 3:13every mannes worke shall appere. For the daye shall declare it and it shalbe shewed in fyre. And ye fyre shall trye euery mannes worke what 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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