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• First day: (“Let there be light!”) The light is divided from the darkness, and they are named “day” and “night” (Gen 1:3)
• Second day: (“Let a firmament be…!”)The waters above from the waters below were divided. The firmament is named “skies”. (Gen 6:7).
•  Third day: God commands the waters below to be gathered together in one place, and dry land to appear. “earth” and “sea” are named. God commands the earth to bring forth grass, plants, and fruit-bearing trees. (Gen 1:9-10)
• Fourth day: God puts lights in the firmament to separate light from darkness and to mark days, seasons and years. Two great lights are made to appear and the stars. (Gen 1:14-15)
• Fifth day: God commands the sea to “teem with living creatures”, and birds to fly across the heavens. He creates birds and sea creatures, and commands them to be fruitful and multiply. (Gen 1:20-21)
• Sixth day: God commands the land to bring forth living creatures; (Gen 1:24-25) He makes wild beasts, livestock and reptiles. He then creates humanity in His “image” and “likeness”. They are commanded to “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” The totality of creation is described by God as “very good.” (Gen 1:26-28)
• Seventh day: “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” God, having completed the heavens and the earth, rests from His work, and blesses and sanctifies the seventh day(Gen 2:1-3)