God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
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… and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day and the darkness he called night. And there was evening and there was morning. One day. Then God said, let there be an expanse between the waters, a canopy and let it separate water from water. So God made the canopy, and He separated the waters under the canopy from the waters that were above the canopy. And it was so. God called this canopy the heavens. And there was evening and there was morning a second day. Then God said, And it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathered waters He called seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants bearing seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with the seed in it, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. and there was evening and there was morning, a third day. Then God said, Let there be lights in the canopy of the heavens and let them separate the day from the night and let them be as signs to mark seasons and days and years and let them be lights in the canopy of the heavens to give light on the earth. …
… if you're still writing it down, but here's Genesis chapter one, verse five. God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day. You see it twice. That's two of over 2,000 times that the Old Testament contains this word in the Bible. And over the course of those 2,000 times, it's used in about five different ways. Sometimes day refers to a period of 24 hours. Other times day refers to the daylight portion of a day in contrast to darkness at night. Sometimes day vaguely refers to time in general in his day. Sometimes day refers to a year, particularly when it's in the plural. And other times day refers to a long but a finite period of time. So that's a lot of options to choose from in any one verse where we have to dive in and look at the context. And that's just in the Hebrew. That doesn't even account for what might first come into our minds in our culture when we read this word day. …
… Then God said, let there be light. And there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness and called the light day and the darkness night. and there was evening and there was morning the first day and God said let there be a dome in the midst of the waters and let it separate the waters from the waters so God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome and it was so God called the dome sky and there was evening and there was morning the second day and God said let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place and let dry land appear and it was so God called the dry land earth and the waters that were gathered together he called seas and God saw that it was good. Then God said, let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with a seed in it. …