Genesis 1:5 KJV

Genesis · chapter 1 · verse 5

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

Genesis 1:5 in context

3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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

7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

We have here a further account of the first day's work, in which observe, 1. That the first of all visible beings which God created was light;

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-5