Re: Timekeeping
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 2, 1998, 19:45 |
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998 08:38:26 -0500 Scott Jann <sjann@...> writes:
>On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Orjan Johansen wrote:
>
>> But none of the Ten Commandments says anything about weights or
>length.
>> One of them does mention the 7-day week.
>
>Actually, it just says you should labor for six days and keep the
>seventh
>day holy, it doesn't say out of how many days, or anything about
>"week".
>Maybe it means the seventh day of the month or the year?
In the place where the Torah discusses the Counting of the Omer, it says
something like (i don't remember the exact wording) "and you shall count
seven sabbaths...and the fiftieth day shall be a holiday", the holiday
being Shavu`ot.
_sheva` shabatot_, "seven sabbaths", meaning seven weeks = 7 * 7 = 49
days, followed by the holiday of Shavu`ot. So that pretty much settles
the idea of a sabbath being the seventh day of the week, besides the
obvious intuitive "six days -> seventh day" wording.
-Stephen (Steg)
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