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And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. -- Revised Version
Here we come across one of those interesting things that makes reading Hebrew so fun. As the RV has it, the other days are "a second day," "a third day," and so on. And then, in a subtle but noticeable difference, the day on which humans are created is referred to as "the sixth day."
This difference shows up just fine in the Revised Version, but is obscured in the KJV and some other translations. I don't know if it was an intentional thing on the part of the writer of Genesis 1, but it could be. And I applaud the RV for letting this feature of the Hebrew text shine through in English.
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