"This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you" (Exodus 12:2).

"And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16).

Although the "gap theory" is not as popular as it used to be, there is still a significant body of Bible expositors who teach that this theory is the best way to deal with the alleged long ages of Earth history. For example, the Scofield Bible says in its note on Genesis 1:1:

"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom" (Psalm 90:12).

"And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight" (II Samuel 14:26).