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What is the correct date the Israelites arrived at Sinai?
Update
I've substantially modified this answer to focus on the issue of numeric names for months, as the question has been clarified for me.
How months are measured and referred to in Biblical Hebrew
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1 Samuel 20:18: How was the First of the Month / New Moon Determined?
Genesis 1:14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the
heavens to separate the day from the night, and they shall serve as
signs and for seasons, and for days and years;
Psalm 104:19 ...
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Does Leviticus 23 Contradict the Rabbinical Sunset Reckoning of Calendar Days?
The rabbinic interpretation of this verse is given in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Rosh Hashanah, Folio 9a.
Whence then does R. Ishmael
derive the rule that an addition is to be made from the ...
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Was Methuselah literally 969 years old when he died?
Was Methuselah literally 969 years old when he died?
Genesis 5:27 (NASB)
Thus all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years;
and he died. But were these years the same as the ...
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1 Samuel 20:18: How was the First of the Month / New Moon Determined?
I am unaware of any Biblical text that explicitly answers this question, but we can answer what was done in practice: a new moon was recognized at the first sliver of the waxing crescent (see ...
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Luke 23:54 - Historical Evidence that the Jewish Calendar Day began at Sunrise?
Note: As the author of the question - I feel that a stronger answer would be to point to historical evidences outside of Scripture, and evidences earlier than the Talmud. For example, evidences ...
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Luke 1 - What time of the year were John and Jesus born?
A couple of people have already mentioned the animals grazing in the fields at night. I think this does indicate a time of year. The Babylonian Talmud, a collection of Jewish teachings, substantiates ...
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Why is the date of Pentecost calculated similar to the Saddusaical method?
It is simple. Because the Sadducee's calculation was in line with the scripture and the rabbinical was and still is wrong.
15 ‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave ...
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Why is the date of Pentecost calculated similar to the Saddusaical method?
15 “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. 16 You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. ...
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What is the correct date the Israelites arrived at Sinai?
The difference seems to be rooted at when do we start to count. The 2 options are:
The first month is the month in which the Israelites left Egypt.
The first month begin with the first new moon after ...
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Luke 1 - What time of the year were John and Jesus born?
I don't believe so.
There is an order of priests that serve in the temple (a rotation of 24) but the starting priest varies from year to year.
Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The ...
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