Genesis 1:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And 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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Cross-References

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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.
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.
Psalms 104:20
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
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.

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Commentary

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. first day--a natural day, as the mention of its two parts clearly determines; and Moses reckons, according to Oriental usage, from sunset to sunset, saying not day and night as we do, but evening and morning.