human beings are made in the image of God, and on the seventh God rests, his work complete. This point of grammar may also be a signal to us that the text is rather more sophisticated than we might first have thought. In particular, it is often assumed that the writer of Genesis intended us to take the days either as seven days of one earth week (as in the twenty-four-hour view) or as seven time periods of indeterminate length (as in the day-age view) or as a logical framework in which to help us