Quote Originally Posted by forwonderbear
btw: the hebrew would strongly indicate actualy 24hour days. it's rather blatant in that regard. would be very uncharacteristic of ancient hebrew writing if the author meant something other than earth-days.
What is an "earth-day"? Not every culture, country, society, etc. measures time in the same way. I am not an expert on Ancient Hebrew methods of time-telling, but are you sure they were using the same calendar and the same method of telling time as we use today?