JETS 45:4 (Dec 2002) p. 583 Archer explains that the lack of a definite article means the numbered days “are well adapted to a sequential pattern, rather than to strictly delimited units of time.”20 This, however, fails to explain why the sixth day is יום השׁשׁי, “the sixth day,” with an article on the ordinal number, but why there is no article on יום (Gen 1:31). Does the presence of the article mean that the sixth day (and the seventh day, Gen 2:2, 3) was a strictly delimited unit of time, but