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 let them  be  for  signs,  and  for  seasons,  and  for  days  and  years." And  it  was  so  done.  God  made  the  sun,  moon,  and  countless stars,  and  set  them  in  the  firmament  of  heaven,  to  shine  upon the  earth,  and  to  rule  the  day  and  the  night.

The fifth  day  God  said:  “Let  the  waters  bring  forth  the creeping creatures  having  life,  and  the  fowl  that  may  fly  over the earth  under  the  firmament  of  heaven.”  And  God  created fish and  birds  of  every  kind,  and  He  blessed  them  saying:  “Increase and  multiply.”

On the  sixth  day  God  said:  “Let  the  earth  bring  forth  the living creature in  its  kind: cattle  and  creeping  things,  and  beasts of the  earth  according  to  their  kinds.”  And  it  was  so  done. At last God  created  man,  and  gave  him  dominion  over  all  the  rest. And God  saw  all  the  works  that  He  had  made,  and  they  were very good.

The seventh  day  God  rested,  and  He  blessed  that  day and made  it  holy.

The beautiful  Order  of  Creation.  The  very  manner  and  order  in which  the  sacred  writer  relates  the  creation,  serves  to  bring  out  the order and  mutual  relation  of  things  created. God had  already  created light on  the  first  day,  but  this  light  was  not  the  light  of  the  sun. It was on  the  fourth  day  that  God  made  the  sun,  to  be  the  giver  of  light to the  earth. God made  light  first,  because  without  light  and  without warmth, which  is  connected  with  it,  there  could  be  no  growth,  no  life, no order  in  nature.