[boatbums]

Yes, that works out fine until God rests on the seventh day and then says, in verse 4 these are the generations in which the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that God made the earth and the heavens. So it took generations according to verse 4 but was counted as one day.

I don't think it does. The Hebrew word that you are reading translated as "generation" is a word that means an account, or a record or telling of the events and is translated that way in a number of Bible versions.

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. (Gen. 2:4 NIV)http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-4.htm

[ravenwolf]

I don’t think it does. The Hebrew word that you are reading translated as “generation” is a word that means an account,

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The account can be told in different ways, the word Generations in Hebrew is time periods or stages.