Genesis 1:5

and God calleth to the light 'Day,' and to the darkness He hath called 'Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning — day one.

Young's Literal Translation

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 seeth the light that [it is] good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,

6And God saith, 'Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'

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Cross References

Genesis 1:13and there is an evening, and there is a morning — day third.

Genesis 1:23and there is an evening, and there is a morning — day fifth.

Genesis 8:22during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'

Psalms 74:16Thine [is] the day, also Thine [is] the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver — the sun.

Isaiah 45:7Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I [am] Jehovah, doing all these things.'

1 Corinthians 3:13of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare [it], because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall 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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