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"Latter-day Saints have, in addition to the biblical Genesis, two modern restorations of ancient scriptural accounts of the Creation in the Book of Moses and the book of Abraham. Related authoritative information also appears in the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the LDS temple ceremony. . . . The term 'day' (Hebrew yom) for the seven "days" of creation is given as 'time,' a permissible alternative in both Hebrew and English; and it is explicitly pointed out that the 'time' in which Adam should die if he partook of the forbidden fruit 'was after the Lord's time, which was after the time of Kolob [a great star that Abraham had seen nearest to the throne of God, whose revolution, one thousand years by our reckoning, is a day unto the Lord]; for as yet the Gods had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning' (Abr. 5:13;3:2-4). On the basis of the above passage, which clearly excludes the possibility of earthly twenty-four-hour days being the 'days' or 'times' of creation, some Latter-day Saint commentators have argued for one-thousand-year periods as the 'times' of creation as well as the 'time' of Adam's earthly life after the fall; others have argued for indefinite periods of time, as long as it would take to accomplish the work involved. Abraham's account does contain the interesting passage, in connection with the 'organizing' of the lights in the 'expanse' of heaven, 'The Gods watched those things which they had ordered until they obeyed' (Abr. 4:14-18). Abraham's account actually includes twelve different 'labors' of the Gods, divided up among the 'days' in the manner of Genesis. The later temple account of creation gives an abbreviated version of those labors, divided up differently among the seven days while retaining the same order, suggesting that it may not be significant which labor is assigned to which day.

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F. Kent Nielsen and Stephen D. Ricks
Other Writings of Mormons | Daniel H Ludlow's Encyclopedia of Mormonism, page 340-343 "Creation, Creation Accounts."
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