Michael Kruse

Acutually, the recently departed Paula is correct in that I confused my ordinal and cardinal numbers. (I always confuse those for some reason.) That is what I get for writing off my head without refreshing my memory. The Zechariah and Hosea examples should be reversed. To illustrate my respective points. Sorry about that. The point still remains we are taking about unique periods prior to human history and there is no rule of Hebrew grammar that requires day with an ordinal mean a 24-hour day.