And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day fifth.
And there was evening, and there was morning — a fifth 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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And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. The sun now in the firmament, where it was fixed the day before, having gone round the earth, or the earth about that, in the space of twenty four hours; and according to Capellus this was the twenty second of April; or, as others, the fifth of September; and according to Bishop Usher the twenty seventh of October.
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.