Genesis 1:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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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  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours: You have prepared the light and the sun.
  • Ps 104:20 : 20 You make darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.
  • Jer 33:20 : 20 Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so there should not be day and night in their season,
  • 1 Cor 3:13 : 13 Each one's work will become clear: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is.
  • Gen 1:8 : 8 And God called the sky 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 everything that He had made, and they were very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  • Ps 19:2 : 2 Day to day utters speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
  • Eph 5:13 : 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light: for whatever makes manifest is light.
  • 1 Thess 5:5 : 5 You are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

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  • Gen 1:1-4
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    1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

    2And the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved over the surface 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 separated the light from the darkness.

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

    7And God made the sky and separated the waters which were under the sky from the waters which were above the sky; and it was so.

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

    9And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so.

    10And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathered waters He called 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 its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so.

    12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its 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 sky of the heavens to separate 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 sky of the heavens 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 sky of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

    18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate 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 has life, and birds that may fly above the earth in the open sky of heaven.

    21And God created great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kind, and every winged bird after its 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 birds multiply on the earth.

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

    24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind; and it was so.

  • Gen 1:31
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    31And God saw everything that He had made, and they were very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

  • Gen 2:3-4
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    3And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.

    4These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

  • 1 John 1:5
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    5This then is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

  • John 1:1-5
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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 through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.

    4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

    5And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;

    2Male and female He created them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

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    27So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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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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    1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host.

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    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

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    16The day is Yours, the night also is Yours: You have prepared the light and the sun.

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    1The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork.

    2Day to day utters speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

  • Ps 139:12
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    12Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

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    5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arose.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, with no brightness in it?

  • Job 38:12
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    12Have you commanded the morning since your days began; and caused the dawn to know its place,

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    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,