Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

And [with regard to] those who say that Adam was fashioned on the seventh day, they are reprehended and censured by that which says that on the sixth day the heavens and the earth and all their hosts were completed: And God completed all His works on the sixth day." And that you might get this clear in [your] mind, look how [Moses] says, These are the generations of heaven and earth on the day on which they were established. That is, he was relating the beginning of [God's] creation when he said, On the day on which God made heaven and earth.” Which day [is that] but the first one! On that day, he said, there were not yet any trees of the field, because they came to be on the third day. But if someone were to say that the earth had not yet produced at the time when [the earth] was told to bring forth; this is not the same thing. For when [the earth] was commanded to bring forth, it is written: it brought forth.94 And Adam, [Moses] said, had not yet put his hand to work on the earth that is on that first day on which [God] made heaven and earth, which is what he had said above. And because [Moses] repeated it here and said, "God created Adam,” following that first [account] where he recounted that these too had not yet come to be on [the earth], he quickly repeated the account.