Genesis 1:23 (DBY)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Genesis 1:21 And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth.

Genesis 1:23 And there was evening, and there was morning a fifth day.

Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And it was so.

Genesis 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "evening", "morning", and "fifth". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "evening" and "morning", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 22's "And God blessed them saying Be fruitful..." into verse 24's "And God said Let the earth bring...", so "evening" and "morning" belong inside that flow. In Genesis context, the local focus is creation, human rebellion, covenant promise, and God's providence.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "evening" and "morning" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.