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Selected Verse: Genesis 1:5 - World English

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Ge 1:5 World English God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
  King James And 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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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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.
 
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9 Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
14 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.