Genesis 1:5

The story that is in this chapter has 6 parts. This verse is the end of the first part. Each part is called a day. Some people think that God made everything in 6 ordinary days. But the *Hebrew word for ‘day’ occasionally means an age. Some people think that God made everything in 6 long periods of time.

‘And there was evening and there was morning.’ Some people think that this means an ordinary evening and an ordinary morning. If that is true, the 6 days must be 6 ordinary days. But perhaps it means, ‘One age ended and a new age began.’ And so, the 6 days may mean 6 ages.

v6 After that, God said, ‘Let there be a space in the middle of the waters. Let it divide the waters into two parts.’ v7 And God made a space. There were waters above the space and there were waters under the space. And it was so. v8 God called the space ‘sky’. And there was evening and there was morning. It was the second day.