He indicated to them that the great series of creative days had now reached another closing and that they were standing at the “evening,” the starting point of a new day according to God’s own marking of creative days. It was to be a blessed day and sanctified to God’s own pure, righteous purpose. The perfect man, the prophet of God, took note of this. The inspired narrative tells us:

20. What does the Bible account say concerning “the seventh day”?

²⁰ “After that God saw everything he had made and, look! it was very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.

Genesis 1:31