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Bible Verses About The Days Of Creation

Early Christian writers commonly taught that God made the world in six days and rested on the seventh, and several of them also linked that pattern to a larger six-thousand-year plan for history. The strongest early witnesses here are Barnabas, Theophilus of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Origen, and Lactantius. The Bible passages most directly tied to this topic are Genesis 1–2 and Exodus 20:11, which anchor the six-day work and seventh-day rest pattern.

The evidence is broad across the 2nd and 3rd centuries, but some writers use the days mainly for symbolic reading or chronology, so not every passage is a plain statement about the creation week itself.

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Supporting Passages

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

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For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Key Bible verse for the six-day work and seventh-day rest pattern.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

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And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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And the evening and the morning were the third day.

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And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Direct Bible passage on God blessing the seventh day.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

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Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Reinforces the creation-week pattern in Exodus.

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

Sabbath rest command

Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

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Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

Weekly six-day work and seventh-day rest command

And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

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But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Another Sabbath command tied to six days of work.

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

Weekly six-day work and seventh-day rest command

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

Weekly six-day work and seventh-day rest command

Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

Sabbath rest command

Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

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