Yes, but when I mentioned this statement from the law, I pointed out that there were not only similarities between God’s creation week and our work week, but also obvious differences. God’s week happened once; ours is repeated. God’s creative activity is very different from ours; God does not need rest as we do; and so on. So it is not possible to draw straight lines from Genesis to our working week. God’s week is a pattern for ours, but it is not identical. Thus Exodus 20:8–11 does not demand that the days of Genesis 1 be the days of a single week, although it could of course be interpreted
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