And the evening and the morning were the third day.
and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day third.
And there was evening, and there was morning — a third day.
And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
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But whose ages, if not the Creator's? For because ages consist of times, and times are made up of days, and months, and years; since also days, and months, and years are measured by suns, and moons, and stars, which He ordained for this purpose (for "they shall be," says He, "for signs of the months and the years"), it clearly follows that the ages belong to the Creator, and that nothing of what was fore-ordained before the ages can be said to be the property of any other being than Him who claims the ages also as His own.
Tertullian· Against Marcion Book V, 220patristic
And the evening and the morning were the third day.
John Gill· Exposition of the Entire Bible, 1771reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches4
God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”
God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.