Genesis 1:23
New International Version
And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

New Living Translation
And evening passed and morning came, marking the fifth day.

English Standard Version
And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

Berean Standard Bible
And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

King James Bible
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

New King James Version
So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

New American Standard Bible
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

NASB 1995
There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

NASB 1977
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Legacy Standard Bible
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Amplified Bible
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Christian Standard Bible
Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.

American Standard Version
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And it was evening, and it was dawn, day fifth.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

Contemporary English Version
Evening came, then morning--that was the fifth day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the evening and morning were the fifth day.

English Revised Version
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There was evening, then morning-a fifth day.

Good News Translation
Evening passed and morning came--that was the fifth day.

International Standard Version
The twilight and the dawn were the fifth day.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Literal Standard Version
and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] fifth day.

Majority Standard Bible
And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

New American Bible
Evening came, and morning followed—the fifth day.

NET Bible
There was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.

New Revised Standard Version
And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

New Heart English Bible
There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

World English Bible
There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Young's Literal Translation
and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day fifth.

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Context
The Fifth Day
22Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23And there was evening, and there was morning— the fifth day. 24And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.…

Cross References
Genesis 1:22
Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

Genesis 1:24
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.


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Genesis 1
1. God creates heaven and earth;
3. the light;
6. the firmament;
9. separates the dry land;
14. forms the sun, moon, and stars;
20. fishes and fowls;
24. cattle, wild beasts, and creeping things;
26. creates man in his own image, blesses him;
29. grants the fruits of the earth for food.














(23) The fifth day.--Upon the work of the first four days geology is virtually silent, and the theories respecting the physical formation of the world belong to other sciences. But as regards the fifth day, its testimony is ample. In the lowest strata of rocks, such as the Cambrian and Silurian, we find marine animals, mollusca, and trilobites; higher up in the Devonian rocks we find fish; in the Carbonaceous period we find reptiles; and above these, in the Permian, those mighty saurians, described in our version as great whales. Traces of birds, even in these higher strata, if existent at all, are rare, but indubitably occur in the Triassic series. We thus learn that this fifth day covers a vast space of time, and, in accordance with what has been urged before as regards vegetation, it is probable that the introduction of the various genera and species was gradual. God does nothing in haste, and our conceptions of His marvellous working are made more clear and worthy of His greatness by the evidence which geology affords.

Verse 23. - And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. If of the previous creative days geological science has only doubtful traces, of this it bears irrefragable witness. When the first animal life was Introduced upon our globe may be said to be as yet sub judice. Principal Dawson inclines to claim for the gigantic foraminifer, eozoon canadense, of the Laurentian rocks, the honor of being one of the first aquatic creatures that swarmed in terrestrial waters, though Professor Huxley believes that the earliest life is not represented by the oldest known fossils ('Critiques and Addresses,' 9:1873); but, whether then or at some point of time anterior introduced, geology can trace it upwards through the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras with the result that is here so exactly defined. Throughout the long ages that fill the interval between the Azoic period of our earth's history and that which witnessed the appearance of the higher animals she is able to detect an unbroken succession of aquatic life, rising gradually from lower to higher forms - from the trilobites and mollusks of the Cambrian and Silurian systems, up through the ganoid fishes of the Devonian and the amphibians of the Carboniferous to the saurian reptiles of the Permian periods. At this point certain ornithic tracks in the superincumbent Triassic strata reveal the introduction upon the scene of winged creatures, and with this accession to its strength and Volume the stream of life flows on till the higher animals appear. Thus geology confirms the Scripture record y attesting

(1) the priority of marine animals and birds to land animals;

(2) the existence of a period when the great sea monsters, with the smaller aquatic tribes and winged fowls of the air, were the sole living creatures on the globe; and

(3) that, precisely as Elohim designed life has continued in unbroken succession since the time of its first introduction. It may also be noted that the Palaeontological history of the earth s crust suggests a number of considerations that enable us to form a conception of the fifth day's work, which, though not contravened by the Mosaic narrative, is yet by it not explicitly disclosed. For example, whereas it might seem to be the teaching of the inspired writer that the tanninim, the tomes, and the birds were created simultaneously, and so were synchronous in their appearance, the testimony of the rocks rather points to a series of creative acts in which successive species of living creatures were summoned into being, as the necessary conditions of existence were prepared for their reception, and indeed with emphasis asserts that the order of creation was not, as in ver. 21, first the great sea monsters, and then the creepers, and then the birds; but first the smaller aquatic tribes, and then the monsters of the deep, and finally the winged creatures of the air. This, however, is not to contradict, but to elucidate, the word of God. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And there was
וַֽיְהִי־ (way·hî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

evening,
עֶ֥רֶב (‘e·reḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6153: Evening

and there was
וַֽיְהִי־ (way·hî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

morning—
בֹ֖קֶר (ḇō·qer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1242: Dawn, morning

the fifth
חֲמִישִֽׁי׃ (ḥă·mî·šî)
Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's 2549: Fifth, a fifth

day.
י֥וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day


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