Genesis.”37 Indeed, much has been made of the symmetry involved between days 1–3 and days 4–6 in the passage;38 about the cycle of introduction, command, report, evaluation, and time sequence of each diurnal activity;39 about the repetition of key phrases;40 and even about the numerical symbolism present.41 However, style and structure alone are not determinative to designate a Biblical Hebrew passage as poetic, as we will see below. Its “exalted style” could just as easily be the work of a narrator