Sundown and the rising of the full moon on what then was Saturday, Nisan 15, theīeginning of Passover day. This was the Day of Preparation, in which the lamb prepared onġ4 was eaten later that evening -in the twilight after (Genesis 2:2), so too the Sabbath was to be a day in which "thou shalt not doĪny work" (Exodus 20:10 Leviticus 23:3) -as was theįirst day of the ensuing week-long Feast of Unleavened Bread thatįollowed the Passover (Leviticus 23:7, Deuteronomy16:3).Ĭelebrated on the Sabbath, it therefore had to be prepared well before sunset , With the Sabbath, another holy convocationĪs God had "rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made" Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons"Ĭould fall on any day of the week but was especially sacred when it coincided The blood of a lamb so God would pass over them. The exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, who had marked their doorposts with This was the Passover feast commemorating With bread and bitter herbs (Exodus 12:8), on what then was the fifteenth day of the month. Leviticus 23:5, Numbers 28:16) when, that evening, it was to be sacrificed and eaten A lamb was to be kept "until the fourteenth day of the same month" (Exodus 12:6, March 25 was the beginning of the new year in the early Roman calendar). Inclusively and that both the first and last day were included in calculatingįirst month of the year to you" (Exodus 12:2) was to be Nisan, whichĬorresponds to March/April (just as the vernal equinox on It is important to remember, too, that days were counted Įven if moments old, a portion of a day counted as the whole-and so in the Jerusalem Talmud "day and night each are a term, and part of a term is like the whole" ( Shabbat, Place on that day and, after sunset, the next. An event that occurred just before sunset (the twelfth hour, 6 p.m.) was counted as taking Potentially confusing, it really is not so different than one beginning at midnight sixĭaylight hours, however, still were measuredįrom sunrise (6 a.m.). Although the notion of a new day beginning on the evening of the Friday, for example, began at sunset on Thursday andĮnded at sunset on Friday, which was the beginning of Saturday, the Jewish Genesis 1:5, "And the evening and morning The beginning of a new one, which extended to sunset the next day (night andĭay, rather than day and night cf. Therefore, that the setting sun should signify the end of the day and sunset Sunset, the full moon rising about two weeks later. When the light of the new crescent moon became visible in Jerusalem shortly after The traditional Jewish calendar of the firstĬentury AD was lunar, in which the first day of each month was determined by Return to Sol Invictus The Death of Jesus
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