Genesis 1:23 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.”

Genesis 1:23 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Genesis 1:23 in 7 Bible Translations

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Genesis 1:23 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.”

Genesis 1:23 — World English Bible

Genesis 1:23 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

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

Genesis 1:23 — American Standard Version

Genesis 1:23 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day fifth.”

Genesis 1:23 — Young's Literal Translation

Genesis 1:23 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“And there was evening, and there was morning — a fifth day.”

Genesis 1:23 — Darby Translation

Genesis 1:23 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“So the euening and the morning were the fifte day.”

Genesis 1:23 — Geneva Bible

Genesis 1:23 LS — The Living Sword (2024)

“And there was evening, and there was morning—day fifth.”

Genesis 1:23 — The Living Sword

Genesis 1:23 in Context — Genesis 1

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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What Does Genesis 1:23 Mean?

Genesis 1:23 is a verse from the Book of Genesis, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Genesis chapter 1. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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