The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity. The narrative is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis.In the first, Elohim (the Hebrew generic word for God) creates the heavens and the Earth in six days, then rests on, blesses and sanctifies the seventh (i.e. the Biblical Sabbath).

Bible. Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity - describing the creation of the Earth and of mankind; Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book of Genesis, which describes the origin of the Earth; Genesis Rabbah, a midrash probably written between 300 and 500 CE with some later additions, comprising a …