According to Genesis, God’s creation work lasted six days before the day of rest.
Genesis 1 presents creation as a structured sequence. Light appears on the first day; the sky, land, seas, plants, heavenly bodies, birds, fish, land animals, and humans follow across the next five days. Genesis 2:2 says that God finished the work on the seventh day and rested.
The common mix-up is answering “seven days.” The complete creation week has seven days, but the creative work is described as taking six days. The seventh day is set apart as a day of rest, a pattern later connected with the Sabbath in the Ten Commandments.
Genesis 1 also uses repeated phrases such as “there was evening and there was morning,” giving the account a highly ordered literary structure. Jewish and Christian traditions have interpreted the passage in different ways, including literal and symbolic readings, but the stated sequence itself identifies six working days followed by one day of rest.