Genesis 1:19
New International Version
And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Context
The Fourth Day
18to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19And there was evening, and there was morning— the fourth day. 20And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”…

Cross References
Genesis 1:18
to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:20
And God said, "Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky."


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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.














Verse 19. - And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. The Scripture references to this day's work are both numerous and instructive (cf. Job 9:9; 37:31; Psalm 8; Psalm 19; Psalm 104; Psalm 147.). The Hebrew writers supply no information as to the astronomical theories which were prevalent in their time; yet "from other sources we have facts leading to the belief that even in the time of Moses there was not a little practical astronomy in the East, and some good theory. The Chaldeans at a very early period had ascertained the principal circles of the sphere, the position of the poles, and the nature of the apparent motions of the heavens as the results of revolution on an inclined axis. The Egyptian astronomers, whom we know through Thales, , taught the true nature of the moon's light, the sphericity of the earth, and the position of its five zones. Pythagoras, , knew, in addition, the obliquity of the ecliptic, the identity of the evening and morning star, and the earth's revolution round the sun" (Dawson, 'O.W.,' p. 207). Modern astronomy, though possessed of highly probable theories as to the formation of the universe, is still unable to speak with absolute precision with regard to this fourth day's work. Yet them are not wanting indirect corroborations of the truth of the Mosaic narrative from both it and geology. According to the sacred writer, the presently existing atmosphere, the distribution of land and water, the succession of day and night, and the regular alternation of the seasons, were established prior to the introduction of animal life upon the earth; and Sir Charles Lyell has demonstrated nothing more successfully than the dominion of "existing causes" from the Eozoic era downwards, and the sufficiency of these causes to account for all the changes which have taken place in the earth's crust. Again, geology attests the prevalence on our globe in prehistoric times of a much more uniform and high temperature than it now possesses, so late as the Miocene era a genial tropical climate having extended up beyond the Arctic circle, and in the earliest eras of the history of the globe, in all probability, the entire sphere bring so favored with excessive heat. Different causes have been suggested for this phenomenon; as, e.g., the greater heat of the cooling globe (the earliest geologists), a different distribution of land and water (Lyell), variations in the eccentricity of the earth's orbit (Herschell and. Croll), changes in the earth's axis (Evans, Drayson, Bell), and the greater intensity of the sun's heat; Sir W Thomson, 'Trans. Geolog. Soc.,' Glasgow, 1877). The Biblical narrative, by distinctly teaching that the sun was perfected on the fourth day, renders it intelligible that his influence on the surface of the earth was then at its greatest, causing tropical climates to prevail and tropical vegetation to abound, both of which have gradually disappeared from the polar regions in consequence of the sun's diminished heat. It remains only to note that the Chaldean Genesis preserves a striking reminiscence of this day's work; the obverse of the fifth creation tablet reading -

1. It was delightful, all that was fixed by the great gods,

2. Stars, their appearance (in figures) of animals he arranged.

3. To fix the year through the observation of their constellations. . . .

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 fourth
רְבִיעִֽי׃ (rə·ḇî·‘î)
Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's 7243: Fourth, a fourth

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


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