Genesis 1:5

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
  • Ps 104:20 : 20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
  • Jer 33:20 : 20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
  • 1 Cor 3:13 : 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
  • Gen 1:8 : 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
  • Gen 1:13 : 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
  • Gen 1:19 : 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
  • Gen 1:23 : 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  • Ps 19:2 : 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
  • Eph 5:13 : 13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
  • 1 Thess 5:5 : 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

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    1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

    2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

    3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

    4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

  • Gen 1:6-24
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    6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

    7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

    8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

    9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

    10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

    11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

    12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    13And the evening and the morning were the third day.

    14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

    15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

    16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

    17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

    18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

    19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

    20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

    21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

    22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

    23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

    24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

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    31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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    3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

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    5This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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    1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

    2The same was in the beginning with God.

    3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

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    7But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.

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    12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

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    16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

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    2Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

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    12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

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    20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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    12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

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