With each successive fiat the cosmic house took shape in progressive fulfillment of the divine architect’s unfathomably vast conception. Hence the work process of the six days is marked by the judicial refrain of divine approbation: “God saw that it was good.” This succession of judgments expressing the builder’s pleasure in the work of each day led to the final verdict of delighted satisfaction: “God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good” (Gen 1:31a; cf. Exod 39:43). The work