1 Chronicles 9:27NET Bible
They would spend the night in their posts all around God's sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.
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God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.
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God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,
Genesis 1:16
God made two great lights--the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.
Genesis 1:18
to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
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For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made."