biblical literalists read chapter 1 are significant. For example, one of the first questions that a modern reader asks when approaching this text is, “How long are the days?” Once we realize that the seventh day of Genesis 2:2–3 is no ordinary day, and that God’s rest is not the same as our rest, but perhaps only analogous to it, we will begin to question the meaning of “day” in chapter 1.6 These are not days as human beings commonly construe them. Rather, they are God’s days, as he construes them.