“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,”
King James Version (KJV)
Manpreet Israel's comment on 2015-01-02 05:50:52:
Literally "generations " started after Abraham. In God 's infinite Wisdom and calender one day is equal to 1000 years. His Ways are Higher then ours. We can only pray for perfect understanding, between the 1st and the 2nd verse of the Bible who know how many so called "years " passed. God always makes things perfect He is Perfect. Matt 5:48 something happened that the earth was without form Dispensation of Angels Satan was cast on to the Earth after pride entered in his heart and the earth was covered with darkness. Then in Verse 2 Spirit of God moved on the Earth, Light had to be there in Him "God " there is no darkness. He is light God said let there be light... So, times are in His Hands, only God know what exactly God is referring to "Generation ". For us we need only to know that "God " who is "THE " Creator made everything for His Son Jesus that through Him the entire world might be saved. John 3:16. Amen
rdbyrne's comment on 2014-01-23 15:12:00:
The Hebrew word for day is the same word that is used to refer to a 24 hour day. there is no reason to assume that meant anything else. A 24 hour day.
Ralph Cooper's comment on 2012-07-24 01:11:13:
you cannot have a 24 hour day before the sun was created. The sun was created on the 4th day but not illuminated until the six days of creation was completed. In verse 4 God divided the light from the darkness differently then verse 14. In verse 2 the earth was in total darkness called night. when god said let there be light, the light covered the whole earth and extended outward into space. If you had a spaceship back then you could have traveled upward to where it was dark just like we can today. In verse 14 he set the sun in that darkness 93,000,000 miles from eath until creation was finished. When he illuminated the sun, the sunlight divided the light from the darkness like in verse 4, creating light on the side of the earth facing the sun the backside remained dark. when the rotated on its axis creating the 24 hour day and night.
stan peel's comment on 2012-04-23 15:37:06:
It means what it says, that Man was created on the same day that the earth was created...day 3. The Woman was taken out of Man three days later just as the foundation of the church was formed from Christ's body at the Last Supper, 3 days after Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time.
RALPH M. WATERS's comment on 2010-12-30 08:53:49:
All the angels and hell were finished.
RALPH M. WATERS's comment on 2010-12-30 08:52:06:
Once again, These were the generations "GENERATIONS" in the DAY the Lord GOD created. not in the 24 hours. - once again emphasis on more than a 24 hour period "GENERATIONS"