I think it does! It said He rested on the Seventh day, the Sabbath day. That implies a week, consecutively. Unless we presume that God didn't take a couple few sabbaths off for rest?
It was a week of 7 days, consecutive and he created for 6 days and took Saturday off. That's how it works, right? So that's why I think you do have your implication.
Part 1
Well, enter the nasty subject called translations.....
Do you believe what was found in the dead sea scrolls?
Have you read Genesis 1 in the dead sea scrolls?
Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Translation page
dssenglishbible.com
Due to the likelihood of space I'll condense to just a section and encourage you to read the link. There are 7 to read but I am posing the 2nd one
Genesis 1 from Scroll 1Q1 Genesis
Genesis 1 from Scroll 4Q2 Genesisb
Genesis 1 from Scroll 4Q4 Genesisd
Genesis 1 from Scroll 4Q7 Genesisg
Genesis 1 from Scroll 4Q8 Genesish1
Genesis 1 from Scroll 4Q10 Genesisk
Genesis 1 from Scroll 4Q483 Genesis
Genesis 1 from Scroll 4Q2 Genesisb
1 In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth
was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of
the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering
over the surface of the waters.
3 God said, “Let there be light,”
and there was light. 4 God saw the light,
and saw that it was good. God divided the light from
the darkness. 5 God
called the light
“day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening
and there was morning, the first day. (NOTE: THE first day)
6 God
said, “Let there be
an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide
the waters from
the waters.” 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from
the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
8 God called the expanse “sky”.
There was evening and there was morning,
a second day. (NOTE: A second NOT THE second)
9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
10 God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
11 God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so
. 12 The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed
after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
13 There was
evening and there was morning, a third day. (NOTE: A third NOT THE third)
14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons,
days, and years;
15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth”;
and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule
the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
17 God set
them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
18 and to rule over the day and over the night,
and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
19 There was evening and there was morning,
a fourth day.(NOTE: A fourth NOT THE fourth)
20 God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
21 God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every
winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
22 God blessed them, saying,
“Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
23 There was
evening and there was morning, a fifth day.(NOTE: A fifth NOT THE fifth)
24 God said,
“Let the earth produce
living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind
”; and it was so. 25 God made
the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God
saw that it was good.
26 God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea
, and over the birds of
the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 God created
man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed
them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
THERE IS absolutley nothing here that would indicate when that second, third, fourth or fifth day occirred.
We are thold there was a first day... but the next day of this period is not indicated it was after 24 earth hours.
You are , we all do, forget that God has his own timing.
What is a day in bible talk??? What is a day in God talk???
We know... with sligh doubt the word day here is a 24 hour period.
If we exam the Hebrew word for “day” and the context in which it appears in Genesis we will naturally be lead to the conclusion that “day” means a literal, 24-hour period of time.
But saying a second day could well mean next Monday, a thrid day could well mean the following Tuesday... and so on.
When Genesis was put together to tell the story... How long had it been since the author... assumed to be Moses
actually sat down to write the inspired story? Do you not believe that God might have inspired him to write in wording that would be understood by the authors contemporaries?
The Hebrew word yom translated into the English day can mean more than one thing.
It can refer to the 24-hour period of time that it takes for the earth to rotate on its axis .
OR It can refer to the period of daylight between dawn and dusk (e.g., “it gets pretty hot during the day but it cools down a bit at night”).
AND it can refer to an unspecified period of time such as when we might say to a child... "back in my day.."
In Genesis 7:11 it is used to refer to a 24-hour period .
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the [
a]floodgates of the sky were opened.
In Genesis 1:16 it is used to refer to the period of daylight between dawn and dusk in
God made the two great lights, the greater light [
a]to govern the day, and the lesser light [
b]to govern the night; He made the stars also.
And in Genesis 2:4 it is used to refer to an unspecified period of time.
So, in Genesis 1:5 to 2:2 what does yom mean when used in conjunction with ordinal numbers (i.e., the first day, a second day, a third day, a fourth day, a fifth day, a sixth day, and the seventh day)? Are these 24-hour periods or something else? Could yom as it is used here mean an unspecified period of time?
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