Genesis 1:5
Good News Translation
and he named the light "Day" and the darkness "Night." Evening passed and morning came--that was the first day.

New Revised Standard Version
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Contemporary English Version
and named the light "Day" and the darkness "Night." Evening came, then morning--that was the first day.

New American Bible
God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” Evening came, and morning followed—the first day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Day, and.

Genesis 8:22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

Psalm 19:2 Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge.

Psalm 74:16 Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

Psalm 104:20 Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about:

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

Jeremiah 33:20 Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season:

1 Corinthians 3:13 Every man's work shall be manifest. For the day of the Lord shall declare it, because it shall be revealed in fire. And the fire shall try every man's work, of what sort it is.

Ephesians 5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for all that is made manifest is light.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 For all you are the children of light and children of the day: we are not of the night nor of darkness.

And the evening and the morning were.

Genesis 1:8,13,19,23,31 And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day. . . .

Context
The First Day
4And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness. 5And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.6And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters.…
Cross References
Numbers 20:29
And Aaron being dead in the top of the mountain, he came down with Eleazar. And all the multitude seeing that Aaron was dead, mourned for him thirty days throughout all their families.

Psalm 65:8
And they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at thy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the evening to be joyful.

Psalm 74:16
Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

Genesis 1:4
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