By: Karen Engle, ICEJ USA Managing Editor
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The Biblical Day and Week
In Genesis 1:5 we learn that God called the light day and the darkness night and that “the evening and the morning were the first day.” God also referred to each day as an ordinal: “the first day,” “the second day,” and so on. God’s day is from evening to evening, affirmed with His instruction for celebrating the Sabbath in Leviticus 23:32: “From evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.” This is why to this day Jews begin the first day of their week at sundown on our Saturday and their seventh day, Sabbath, at sundown on Friday.
Obviously, this is quite different from our calendaring system. Our day begins at midnight and ends at midnight, but the biblical day starts in the evening, a portion of time with no light, from sunset to dawn. The second part of the Hebrew day is from dawn to sunset, daylight hours. Thus, the sunrise in the morning was the middle of the Hebrew day; when the sun set, the day ended, and the people started a new day—with darkness.
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