ABSTRACT
In the Bible, 'creation' can mean both the process by which the universe was made and the created order which emerged. The account with which the Book of Genesis opens focuses less on the details of the process than on making clear God's role as Creator of all things and his delight in what had been made. Genesis contains two accounts of God's creation of the world. In the first, creation takes place over six days. On the seventh day God rested. The second account focuses on the place of humankind in creation. Some later commentators, including Augustine of Hippo, saw the events of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit enabled the disciples of Jesus to praise God in a number of languages, as a reversal of the confusion of languages following the attempt to build the Tower of Babel.
