You have to remember that it was written or scribed by Moses as directed by God. So the text isn't going to follow your ideas of how it ought to be presented.
Don't get too hung up on when what happens per day. You'll miss the overall flow if you do. Then your brain will have trouble reconciling the events of the days according to the first mention in the creation week.
The first text of the creation week is the overview. The second text of the creation process is void of what day they happen, and have more detail in each case.
The second part of the creation week the author picks out certain happenings to detail them. Not paying any attention to when they occurred in Genesis one.
I've seen this sort of thing done by authors in books, they're known to do the same thing. Overview. Then the next chapter is details. Then chapter three moves into details about Adam and Eve specifically such as eating from the tree and the various curses.
Not counting the numerical chapters as chapters. The numerations were added much much much later.
Chapters (act) 1 & (act) 2 reconcile themselves as a literary writing or a theatrical play if you will, that sets the scene for chapter (act) three.
Movie directors have done the same. They'd start with the wide view, then move the camera closer, then do the camera shots of a particular character and what he or she is doing. Then you get all caught up in what you're looking at instead of anything else that's around you. As if you've been transported to stand just a few feet from the actual events.
Read it the way that it was intended to be read then you won't be like a stuck gear trying to keep things in order, but you can pick out anything out of sequence to focus on.
FwGod,
I assume that your name is short for Follow God. Excellent.
FwGod: "You have to remember that it was written or scribed by Moses as directed by God."
When the Bible was written, you honored people by naming books after them, even if they didn't write it. We know that Deuteronomy wasn't written by Moses because Moses died and was buried by God in the last chapter. Moses wouldn't have been around to write it.
It is my understanding that names of books like Genesis and Exodus are taken from the titles that translators gave them in the Septuagint. The title of the book is not as old as the text.
Many have believed, or assumed, that the first five books of the Bible were written by Moses but the New Testament gives a different impression.
In the following passage, Jesus is debating with the Pharisees, and Jesus is speaking.
22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually
it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.
23 Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man’s whole body on the Sabbath?
John 7:22-24 NIV
22 Moses gave you circumcision (
not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man upon the sabbath.
23 If on the sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?
John 7:22-24 RSV
Here Jesus Himself tells us that circumcision should not be thought of as a command written down by Moses but as a tradition from "the fathers" or "the patriarchs."
FwGod: "The first text of the creation week is the overview. The second text of the creation process is void of what day they happen, and have more detail in each case."
This doesn't work out. The first creation story frequently refers to the sky and to heavenly bodies. We have "light" and "day" in verses 3-5. We have the sky "vault" in verses 7, 8, 14 and 17. We have the sun, moon and stars in verses 16-18. There is no mention of sun, moon, stars, or light in the second creation story and the sky is mentioned only in connection with birds. We do not find "more detail" on the sky and heavenly bodies.
In the first creation story, God tells the fish, sea creatures and birds to multiply, before people are created.
22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
Genesis 1: 22 NIV
After people are created, God gives dominion to humans and gives plants to the animals for food.
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Genesis 1: 29 NIV
None of this is found in the second creation story. The command to multiply and the gift of plants for food to animals is omitted. The second creation story does not add to these points that were laid out in the first story, it goes in a different direction.
In the first creation story, God tells the animals to be fruitful and multiply. In the second, God tells Adam not to eat of the forbidden fruit. The commands are different and the accounts are different.