Genesis 1:3-5

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The First Day—Light

³Then God said, “Let there be light!” And light began to shine.^[a] ⁴He saw the light, and he knew that it was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. ⁵God named the light “day,” and he named the darkness “night.”

There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the first day.

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Footnotes

Genesis 1:3 Or “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. While ²the earth had no special shape, and darkness covered the ocean, and God’s Spirit hovered over the water, ³God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Or “When God began to create the sky and the earth, ²while the earth was completely empty, and darkness covered the ocean, and a powerful wind blew over the water, ³God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.”