What are the seven days of creation according what the ancient Israelites believed?

Answer 1

They are called Shiv'at Yemei Bereisheet- the Seven Days of the Beginning.

Commonly, the Creation week. For 6 days God renewed the face of the Earth all prepared for mankind. On the 7th day, God rested and blessed the day for all generations to rest and ponder His great creation. Having established the 'week,' God gave it to mankind for a chronological tool/cycle.

Answer 2

Genesis 1:1-27

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day. 6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-the second day. 9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day. 14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning-the fourth day. 20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning-the fifth day. 24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 27 So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.-the sixth day Genesis 2:2-3 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested [c] from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Answer 3

According to The Bible God created the universe in seven days. The Bible teaches that God is all powerful. God simply was able to speak everything into existence This must be accepted by faith. It cannot be scientifically proven. The big bang theory cannot be proven either. I personally feel that Creation makes more sense than the idea that nothing blew up and became something.

Answer 4

1. light and darkness

2.sky and sea

3. vegetation

4. sun, moon and stars

5. birds and fish

6. animals, the 1st 2 humans (Adam and Eve )

And on Day 7, he rested

Answer 5

He created the Heavens and the Earth, while creating the Universe. He then created light and darkness, later the stars and the moon. He created the sea's and the creatures of the sea and the sky. He made land appear on the ground and set animals upon the ground.

Answer 6

They are called Shiv'at Yemei Bereisheet- the Seven Days of the Beginning.Commonly, the Creation week. For 6 days God renewed the face of the Earth all prepared for mankind. On the 7th day, God rested and blessed the day for all generations to rest and ponder His great creation. Having established the 'week,' God gave it to mankind for a chronological tool/cycle.

Answer 7

Commonly, the Creation week. For 6 days God renewed the face of the Earth all prepared for mankind. On the 7th day, God rested and blessed the day for all generations to rest and ponder His great creation. Having established the 'week,' God gave it to mankind for a chronological tool/cycle.

Answer 8

Strictly speaking, the ancient Israelites - inhabitants of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel - never believed in the biblical seven days of creation, as this story (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) was not written until the Babylonian Exile, centuries after Assyria destroyed Israel. What the early Israelites believed about creation is not really known for certain, but they may well have believed the same account as did the early people of Judah, as described in Genesis 2:4b-25.

We can attribute belief in the seven-day creation account to the post-Exilic Jews, not to their ancestors. The seven days can be summarised:
(Day 1) light (day);
(Day 2) the firmament, which was believed to separate the waters of the heavens from the lower waters;
(Day 3) By gathering the lower waters in one place the land appeared. Grasses and trees;
(Day 4) sun; moon and stars - the lights in the firmament;
(Day 5) fish, land creatures and fowl;
(Day 6) man, both male and female;
(Day 7) God rested.

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Answer 9

They are the days during which God created the universe and everything in it:

The universe in general (Genesis 1:1) light; day and night

the firmament (expanse; atmosphere; vault of the heavens)

the continents (by separating dry land and the seas)

plants

the sun, moon and stars

birds and fish

land animals

mankind.

The light of the first three days was not the sun; it was light that had no physical source, and it was later concealed from us.

Genesis ch.2 is not taken into account here because according to tradition, there is only one Genesis creation-narrative, with ch.2 serving as an expansion of the brevity of ch.1, not a separate set of events (Rashi commentary, Gen.2:8). In ch.1, God created the universe from nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30; Targum and Nachmanides on Gen. 1:1; Rashi commentary, Gen.1:14), and in ch.2, God performed specific acts within the broader picture.

http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=6&article=1131(a Christian author)

http://religion.answers.com/theory/debunking-the-jepd-documentary-hypothesis

Answer 10

Day by day, God created the universe and everything in it (Genesis ch.1).God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30). Nachmanides on Gen. 1:1 states emphatically that this is a fundamental Jewish tradition.Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.

On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun.

On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.

On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.

On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.

On day 5: God created birds and fish.

On day 6: God created animals and people.

On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.

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