Our new twenty-four hour day begins at midnight but when considering Biblical time it is important to know that the Hebrew day begins at sundown.
Both the evening and morning are day(light) but they do not represent the entire twenty-four hour cycle of a day for they exclude night. Evening begins when the sun is directly overhead (even-ly dividing the sky) and continues until the sun is even with the earth...sundown, evening ends and with it that full twenty-four hour day ends. The beginning of night commences with the counting of the next twenty-four hour daily cycle.
In response, on another forum, a poster stated...."That is not where the word evening comes from in English, which is from a much older Old English word æfen which meant evening too. More importantly the Hebrew ereb means dusk. But you come to the right idea in the end this it was sundown when the old day ended and a new day began in scripture." My reply was.....
Readers must decide for themselves but I mention it here as the subject carries into this thread about the evening and morning:
The "seventh day," bolded above, is thought to be a mistranslation in that verse for God ended His work on the sixth day and rested on the seventh. The Septuagint reads "sixth day."
The question is....why doesn't the seventh day end with....and the evening and the morning were the seventh day, as do the other six days?
1 Kings 20:29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
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Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day (day one).
Both the evening and morning are day(light) but they do not represent the entire twenty-four hour cycle of a day for they exclude night. Evening begins when the sun is directly overhead (even-ly dividing the sky) and continues until the sun is even with the earth...sundown, evening ends and with it that full twenty-four hour day ends. The beginning of night commences with the counting of the next twenty-four hour daily cycle.
In response, on another forum, a poster stated...."That is not where the word evening comes from in English, which is from a much older Old English word æfen which meant evening too. More importantly the Hebrew ereb means dusk. But you come to the right idea in the end this it was sundown when the old day ended and a new day began in scripture." My reply was.....
The Hebrew word does mean dusk but as shown in Strong's it is....(dusk + day). I'm not certain what that means but if it is as it appears to be, evening means the dusk plus the day, then would not the high noon to nightfall reckoning of evening be correct? Then the day would be sunrise to sunset, morning and evening.
Readers must decide for themselves but I mention it here as the subject carries into this thread about the evening and morning:
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day (day one).1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. (day three)
1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. (day four)
1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. (day five)
1:31 And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
2:2-3 And on the seventh (sixth) day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.
1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. (day three)
1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. (day four)
1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. (day five)
1:31 And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Bullinger, who was allowed to study from the texts, writes of verse [31]...."Here (the sixth day) is with the article 'the'; unlike the other five days." So, the text is saying that the translations should have been, "day one, day three, etc." instead of listing them as "the fourth, the fifth day, etc." except for "the sixth day," for it has the article "the."
2:2-3 And on the seventh (sixth) day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.
The "seventh day," bolded above, is thought to be a mistranslation in that verse for God ended His work on the sixth day and rested on the seventh. The Septuagint reads "sixth day."
The question is....why doesn't the seventh day end with....and the evening and the morning were the seventh day, as do the other six days?
1. Has the seventh day not ended?
2. As the "evening and morning" don't include the night...and the night is symbolic of Satan...is it saying as long as he is kicking the seventh day is ongoing?
3. Is the following verse a clue?
2. As the "evening and morning" don't include the night...and the night is symbolic of Satan...is it saying as long as he is kicking the seventh day is ongoing?
3. Is the following verse a clue?
1 Kings 20:29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
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