Genesis 1:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

God called the light“day” and the darkness“night.” There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 74:16 : 16 You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.
  • Ps 104:20 : 20 You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the LORD, who accomplishes all these things.
  • Jer 33:20 : 20 “I, the LORD, make the following promise:‘I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant
  • 1 Cor 3:13 : 13 each builder’s work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.
  • Gen 1:8 : 8 God called the expanse“sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
  • Gen 1:13 : 13 There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.
  • Gen 1:19 : 19 There was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.
  • Gen 1:23 : 23 There was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 God saw all that he had made– and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 “While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
  • Ps 19:2 : 2 Day after day it speaks out; night after night it reveals his greatness.
  • Eph 5:13 : 13 But all things being exposed by the light are made visible.
  • 1 Thess 5:5 : 5 For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

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    1¶ The Creation of the World In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

    2Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

    3God said,“Let there be light.” And there was light!

    4God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

  • Gen 1:6-24
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    6God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.”

    7So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

    8God called the expanse“sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

    9God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

    10God called the dry ground“land” and the gathered waters he called“seas.” God saw that it was good.

    11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.

    12The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

    13There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.

    14God said,“Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

    15and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

    16God made two great lights– the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.

    17God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,

    18to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

    19There was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.

    20God said,“Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

    21God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

    22God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

    23There was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.

    24God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

  • Gen 1:31
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    31God saw all that he had made– and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

  • Gen 2:3-4
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    3God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

    4The Creation of Man and Woman This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created– when the LORD God made the earth and heavens.

  • 1 John 1:5
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    5God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

  • John 1:1-5
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    1¶ The Prologue to the Gospel In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God.

    2The Word was with God in the beginning.

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

    5And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

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    1The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.

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    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

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    16You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.

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    1For the music director; a psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the sky displays his handiwork.

    2Day after day it speaks out; night after night it reveals his greatness.

  • Ps 139:12
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    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

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    5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

  • Job 38:12
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    12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

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    15That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,