The phrase "whetting your appetite" has to do with a sharpened focus on eating.

The phrase "whetting your whistle" has to do with sharpened focus on drinking.

Here, the play on words is "wedding" and "whetting".

Here we are doing a sharpened focus on weddings and the Monday and Tuesday of the creation week. In the process, interesting connections are made and two linguistic issues with the creation week (not science related) are identified and discussed.

• The Middle English word "whetten" ≈ "sharpen, incite".
• The Old English word "hwettan" ≈ "sharpen, incite".

The ancient Greek word "οξύνει" ≈ "sharpens" and is the source of the (first part of the) English word "oxygen" and "oxymoron".

The Latin word "acuo" ≈ "make pointed, sharpen" as in the English word "acumen" and is related to the (first part of the) words for "acropolis" and "acrobat" (from Greek). It is also the source of the English word "acid".

The Russian word "острить" (a-street) ≈ "sharpen".

Speaking of "whetting your appetite" for a "wedding", let us look at the wedding at Cana in John 3.

• The Latin word "nuptie" ≈ "wedding" and is the source of the English word "nuptial".
• The ancient Greek word "γάμος" ≈ "wedding".
• The modern Greek word "γάμος" (GHA-mos) ≈ "wedding".

The wedding was on the "third" day.

A counting number is a number such as "one", "two", "three", etc.

An ordinal number is a number such as "first", "second", "third", etc.

The "third" in "third day" is an ordinal number.

The English word "third" (ordinal number) is related to other the PIE (Proto Indo-European) root "*TREYES" ≈ "three".

• The Middle English word "thridde" ≈ "third".
• The Old English word "þridda" ≈ "third".
• The modern Greek word "τρίτος" (TREE-tos) ≈ "third".
• The ancient Greek word "τρίτος" ≈ "third".
• The Russian word "третий" (tre-tee) ≈ "third".
• The Old Church Slavonic word "третий" ≈ "third".
• The Latin word "tertius" ≈ "third".
• The Gothic word "thridjin" ≈ "third".

We leave the rest of the verses of this story for a future time.

Details are left as a future topic.

Here is the last verse of the story.

The "waters" and an later verses make a lot more sense if one understands the state of nature called "plasma" and the physical properties of "plasma".

More: Plasma

Let us look at each day of the creation week in Genesis 1.

We are only interested in whether God said that the day was good so we will skip many of the verses and summarize each day.

Each day of creation has the evening before and the day of that creation.

For many, Monday is the start of the work week.

• Have you ever had a bad or "blah" Monday?
• Has God ever had a bad or "blah" Monday?

We will return to this question below.

The English word "blah" can mean (at least) two things.

• idle or meaningless or ignored (from some point of view) talk
• bland or dull or not really good or the best

It appears to be onomatopoetic in that it sounds like what it represents in the same way as "barbarian" in Greek (future topic).

In the creation week, God spoke everything into existence (blah, blah, blah, if your point of view is not focused) and, as we will see, had a blah (not really good) Monday.

Since time as we know it did not exist before the creation, forcing our concept of time as in days into the creation story may cause it not to make sense. A view of six literal creation days appears to have taken hold when a move was made to make the Bible a formal logical system (inerrant in every aspect) following this move in secular areas (including Boolean logic, etc.).

Any measure of time as we know it appears to rely, in part, on the speed of light, and it appears that the speed of light has not been the same at all times in the past.

Details are left as a future topic.

Day 1 is Sunday (evening before and that day).

The Hebrew word "טוב" (to-wb) ≈ "it was good".

On the first day, Sunday, God saw that everything was "good".

Day 2 is Monday (evening before and that day).

There is no record of God seeing anything "good" on the second day - Monday, in the Hebrew.

God had a "blah" Monday in that he spoke things into existence but did not say it was "good".

However, in the LXX (Septuagint), God did see that it was "good". What is going on here?

• Did the LXX, translated from the Hebrew about 270 BC add this "good" part?
• Did the Hebrew Masoretic text, standardized about 1,000 years later, remove the "good" part?

One motivation might be to have God say it was "good" exactly seven times - a special number in Hebrew history. The LXX has God saying it was "good" eight times.

Day 3 is Tuesday (evening before and that day).

On the third day, Tuesday, God said it was "good" twice.

The third day, Tuesday, is considered the day of double blessing by Jews. Weddings are often on this day.

You can now answer the following question. Why was the wedding in John 3 on the third day?

Amish weddings are usually on Tuesday or Thursday in Spring or Fall - outside of working time such as harvest, and cooler to keep food from spoiling - as I was told by two Amish men who I asked about this.

Day 4 is Wednesday (evening before and that day).

On the fourth day, Wednesday, God saw that it was good one time.

Day 5 is Thursday (evening before and that day).

On the fifth day, Thursday, God saw that it was good one time.

Day 6 is Friday (evening before and that day).

On the sixth day, Friday, God saw that it was good two times, including "very good" one of those times. For some reason, Friday, the day before the Sabbath, is a day of double blessing but not a traditional day for weddings.

Perhaps this is because one would need to end the festivities by sundown when the sabbath started. For that reason, it might have been better to celebrate on a Tuesday (avoiding any high sabbath, of course).

Day 7 is Saturday (evening before and that day).

The "host" is, in Greek, what became the English word "cosmos" and at the time the LXX was translated meant "adornments" where the stars were adornments in the heavens, as described by Pythagoras of Pythagorean triangle fame (or infamous if you did not like geometry or trigonometry).

More: The adornment of people in the cosmos

This idea is repeated in Exodus 20:11.

Going back to Genesis 2:2, according to the Hebrew, God completed his work on the seventh day, Saturday. Did God do any work on the seventh day? That is the day God rested.

In the LXX, however, God finished his work on the sixth day. Might this have been changed from "seventh" to avoid some issue.

And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made. (Brenton Septuagint translation)

It appears that the ending of work on the seventh day might have been a Jewish idiom. But that idiom would not translate into Greek very well. Perhaps this is why the LXX differs.

The OCS (Old Church Slavonic) uses "sixth" day. The modern Russian uses "seventh" day.

It appears that the Syriac Peshitah Bible uses "sixth".

Details are left as a future topic.

On the seventh day, God rested from his work.

Thus, there are seven days in the week.

For the seven days, God says that it is "good" seven times.

• Two: Tuesday, Friday
• One: Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday
• Zero: Monday, Saturday (rest day)

The LXX has one time for Monday for a total of eight times.

Interestingly, the days that God says it is "good" twice are days of information mechanism creation. The sea and air creatures (whales, fowl) on day five would involve DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), but no double blessing on that day.

• Day two, Tuesday: plant DNA and replication (seed within itself)
• Day six, Friday: land animals, human DNA