MARY ORDE SHIELDS: The Days of the Creation

Genesis ch. 1, verse 2. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep

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 1. CHAOS.

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Genesis ch. 1, verse 3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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 2. First Day CREATION OF LIGHT

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Genesis ch. 1, verses 6-8. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters… And God called the firmament heaven.

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 3. Second Day CREATION OF HEAVEN

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Genesis ch. 1, verses 9 & 10. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas

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 4. Third Day CREATION OF EARTH AND SEA

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Genesis ch. 1, verse 16. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

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 5. Fourth Day CREATION OF THE SUN MOON AND STARS

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Genesis ch. 1, verses 20 & 21. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales….

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 6. Fifth Day CREATION OF BIRDS, FISH AND WHALES

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Genesis ch. 1, verses 24 & 26; Genesis ch. 2, verses 8 & 20. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creatures after his kind…. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man that he had formed…. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him

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 7. Sixth Day. CREATION OF ANIMALS, ADAM AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN

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Genesis ch. 2, verse 2. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made

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8. Seventh Day.

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Genesis ch. 2, verses 21 & 22. And the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man

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 9. CREATION OF EVE.

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(Diagonal 70")