Genesis 1:5

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

— WEB

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

— KJV

“And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.”

— ASV

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Psalms 74:16 "The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun."
Isaiah 45:7 "I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things."
Psalms 104:20 "You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl."
1 Thessalonians 5:5 "You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,"
Genesis 8:22 "While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”"
Jeremiah 33:20 "“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;"
Psalms 19:2 "Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge."
Genesis 1:8 "God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day."

Commentary

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.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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