And the Evening and the Morning Were the First Day: The Light Came First Genesis 1:3–5 in the King James Version does not begin in darkness and then invent a day at sunset. It begins with a command: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” — Genesis 1:1–3 (KJV) The sequence is plain. Light is spoken into existence. That light is named Day. Darkness is named Night. Only then does Moses record that the evening and the morning together constituted the first day. The day is identified with the light that Go...
