18 Bible Verses About Sunset, and Why Scripture Starts the Day There

Christian Pure Team

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Summary

  • In the Bible the day begins at sunset: “there was evening and there was morning, the first day”, which is why a sabbath starts on Friday night.
  • That means the day opens with darkness and sleep, before any of our work is done — and Psalm 127:2 calls the sleep a gift.
  • Mark 1:32 has a whole town waiting for sundown, because the sabbath had ended and carrying the sick was permitted again.
  • Genesis 15 has God passing between the pieces alone, after dark, while Abram sleeps: the most one-sided promise in Scripture is made at nightfall.
  • Ephesians 4:26 gives the only deadline in the subject — an argument gets one day, and the day ends when the light does.

In the Bible the day begins at sunset, not at dawn. “There was evening and there was morning, the first day” — and Israel has counted every day that way since, which is why a sabbath starts on Friday night. It means the day opens with darkness and sleep, before any of our work has been done. That reordering runs under every passage below, and it is the difference between a sunset that ends something and a sunset that starts…

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Bibliography (Click to show)

Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

The evening-to-evening reckoning of Genesis 1:5 governs the sabbath command at Leviticus 23:32, “from evening to evening”.

The evening sacrifice David refers to at Psalm 141:2 is prescribed at Exodus 29:38-41.

The recognition at Emmaus follows the invitation of Luke 24:29 at Luke 24:30-31.

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