Verse 5

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

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.