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Genesis 1:5

and he called the light, day, and the darknesses, night. And the eventide and the morrowtide was made, one day (or the first day).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 he parted the light from (the) darknesses;

6And God said, The firmament be made in the midst of (the) waters, and part (the) waters from (the) waters.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13And the eventide and the morrowtide was made, the third day.

Genesis 1:23And the eventide and the morrowtide was made, the fifth day.

Genesis 8:22(and so) in all the days of [the] earth, seed and ripe corn, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not rest. (and so for all the days that remain for the earth, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall never cease.)

Psalms 74:16The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou madest the morrowtide and the sun.

Isaiah 45:7forming light, and making darknesses, making peace, and forming evil; I am the Lord, doing all these things.

1 Corinthians 3:13every man’s work shall be open; for the day of the Lord shall declare (it), for it shall be showed in fire; the fire shall prove the work of each man, what manner work 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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