THE CREATION WEEK The creation activities were structured along the sevenfold pattern of a

                           THE CREATION WEEK                            
                                                                        
    The creation activities were structured along the sevenfold pattern 
of a week. The import of this fact is found in the midst of the         
decalogue:                                                              
                                                                        
    Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt           
    thou labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is            
    the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do            
    any work.  ...For in six days the Lord made heaven and              
    earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on              
    the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath             
    day, and hallowed it (Exodus 20:8-11).                              
                                                                        
God patterned the Israelite's week after His creative week.  It is in   
contradiction to the truth to say, as does Bruce Vawter: "The biblical  
writer has pictured God as going about his work like a faithful jew..." 
(1977, p 61). God said He did His work (of creation) in six days and    
rested, and that He expected the same of the Jews; what could be        
clearer? God could very well have created the Universe in six           
millennia, six centuries, six decades, six weeks, six hours, six        
minutes, six seconds, or even six nanoseconds, but God said He did it   
in six days.