Holy BibleKing James Version

Genesis 1:5 KJV

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

Genesis 1:5, King James Version

In context

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.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

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Cross-references

  • Psalms 74:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
  • Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
  • Psalms 104:20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
  • Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.