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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 1:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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.
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