We have now surveyed God's six days of creation. The Bible goes on to say that after His work of creation God rested on the seventh day. But how do we know that the days of creation were six literal days followed by a literal day of rest? There are several reasons for knowing that the creation days were literal. One evidence is very simple. It is our continued use of the seven-day week (see Note 12).

It is acknowledged even by those who are not believers in the Word of God, that the most straightforward explanation of the week is precisely that the seven-day week originated in a seven-day period of creation and rest by God in the beginning. Of all units of time only the week has no basis in astronomy.

Another evidence for the literal Creation Week is found in Exodus 20:9-11. These verses state that God worked six days and rested on the seventh. God uses this as his rationale for telling man to do the same. These verses are part of the Ten Commandments, but this command would have carried little weight if the comparison between God's work week and man's work week not been real and factual. The Ten Commandments are spelled out in matter-of-fact language, not poetic imagery. In the same literal way the Genesis creation account describes God's literal and miraculous week of creation.