Creation

  “Are we able to know how many days apart Adam and Eve were created?”, the answer is yes. The answer is that both Adam and Eve were created on Day 6 of God’s creative work. Here is how we know.

First, read Genesis 1:26a: “26aThen God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” This is from the English Standard Version (ESV)of the Bible. The ESV has this footnote about the word “man” in verse 26a. The footnote says, quoting: “The Hebrew word for man (adam) is the generic term for mankind and becomes the proper name Adam.” So verse 26a is talking not just about the individual first man “Adam”, but collectively about mankind in general.

The read Genesis 1:26b: “26bAnd let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” The third word in v. 26b is the pronoun “them”, referring to a plural noun, a number of persons. The verse says God created more than the one person “adam”, created in v. 26a, i.e., He created them.

Then read Genesis 1:27: “27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” God created both male and female when He created people on Day 6. This is emphasized by the last word in the verse, again, the pronoun referring to a plural number of persons, them. The plural them is repeated twice in Genesis 1:28, in verse 28a: “28aAnd God blessed them,” and again in 28b: “28bAnd God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply….” So God is blessing more than one person, them, in 28a, and commanding more than one person to be fruitful and multiply in 28b. And from v. 27, the “them” are both male and female.

Then read Genesis 1:31 through 2:2. Genesis 1:31: “31And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.”. Then Genesis 2:1-2: “1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done.” God saw that everything was very good, and upon seeing that, Day 6 of creation ended. Then in Genesis 2:1 it says the heavens and the earth were finished, and in v. 2 it says God had finished the work he had done, and He rested.

That’s it. There is no more creating after that. Everything God created, He created during those six days of active creating. He didn’t create anything, after creating male and female, on Day 6, or anytime thereafter