These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. (Genesis 2:4)
This verse is sometimes used as a contradiction since the second part seems to say that everything was created in one day. But the second part, “in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens”, begins a new train of thought; it is not a continuation of “these are the generations when..”, that’s Genesis 1:1-2:3. Proof of this is first, the fact that every commentator on Genesis has placed a new train of thought beginning from Genesis 2:4b with the “second” Creation account beginning with it. Secondly, it does not make sense to be redundant and mention “the heavens and the earth” twice. Third, most translations, such as the literal KJV translation, add a comma, or begin a new train of thought (e.g. NIV). Thus it is not the case that Genesis 2:4 says that the generations of the heaven and earth (the six days of Creation) took place in one day
