Moses used the word yom to represent twelve hours, twenty-four hours, the creative week, forty days, several months, a lifetime, and eternity. Yom can refer to the way we think of a day, as the twenty-four-hour time period it takes for the earth to rotate on its axis. But then in the next chapter (Genesis 2:2), after we go through the seven days, Moses summarizes all seven days together as a “day.” Clearly, the
