7 illustrations from the "Nuremberg Chronicles" (1493):
https://www.faena.com/aleph/7-days-of-creation-and-their-most-beautiful-illustrationsDay one, night and day:
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Day Two, the sky and the sea: And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Day Three land and vegetation:
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Day Four, the stars, the sun and the moon:
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Day Five, sea creatures and birds:
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Day Six, animals and humans:
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Day Seven, rest:
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
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