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NASB | Genesis 1:5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:5 And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. |
Subject: A literal twenty-four hour day |
Bible Note: To God a day is *AS* a thousand years; but a day *IS* evening and morning -- 24 hours. A day is the time of light between one night and the next; the period of rotation of a planet (as earth) or a moon on its axis; the mean solar day of 24 hours beginning at mean midnight. 2 Peter 3:8 (ESV) But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Psalm 90:4 (ESV) For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. Genesis 1:5 (ESV) God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. The concept of one day as a thousand years has been misused to justify all kinds of nutty and false teaching regarding creation and other subjects in which time is a factor. |