Holy Scripture
Genesis 1:4
A church father on this verse
“Evening is then the boundary common to day and night; and in the same way morning constitutes the approach of night to day. It was to give day the privileges of seniority that Scripture put the end of the first day before that of the first night, because night follows day: for, before the creation of light, the world…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness.
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2But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water.
3And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.
— Genesis 1:4 —
5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so.