4004 B.C.: October 23 at 9 am: Date of Creation as it will be reckoned by Irish theologian James Ussher in 1650 A.D. and John Lightfoot a decade earlier. 3760 B.C.: Year of Creation as it will be reckoned in the Hebrew calendar that will be used from the 15th century A.D.

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).