Now if some Hebrew scholar can teach me something different, I am open to new information. If I am mistaken, I will openly correct myself. But the above evidence makes quite clear to me that YOM in Deut. Hence, when it refers to the forty days Moses was previously on Mt. Sinai, it is completely literal. Those who so claim are simply mistaken.
Several examples refer to two or more days in sequence.
This, of course, is what happens in Genesis 1, so such instances are of special significance because of the similarity. The Bible contains a total of thirteen such examples. There is not one exception. The six days of creation followed by the day of rest are described sequentially. These sequences of days with ordinal numbers unquestionably all describe consecutive literal 24-hour days.