Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Webster Bible
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In Context
4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Cross References
Genesis 1:13And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Genesis 1:23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Psalms 74:16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Isaiah 45:7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things .
1 Corinthians 3:13Every man's work will be made manifest: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will try every man's work, 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 →