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Originally Posted by joshua Also, if it's not literal, what does the whole "morning and evening" division symbolize? | How can one have a literal "morning and evening" on the first 3 days when the Sun was created on the fourth day? By definition a "morning" and an "evening" need both a sun and an earth (otherwise there's not sunrise and sunsets). If you say "morning and evening" = a 24 hour period then you've ceased to read the text literally, because it doesn't say 24 hours it says "morning and evening". | Marty it is clear from Exodus 20 that the days were ordinary days.
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