An argument based on a reading of Genesis is not going to convince me, especially when the author writes, “Do not be impressed or swayed if someone shows you that the Midrash or the entire Talmud or some ancient document or engraved stone ... or some other extra Biblical source shows that a day begins at sundown. The Bible must be our authority.” http://www.christianityboard.com/topic/ ... t-sunrise/Japhethite wrote:christianityboard topic a-day-begins-at-sunrise
Exod 12:6, 8Japhethite wrote:If you look up the OT chapters verses on the feasts in Nisan you will see that the passover/14th is clearly on a friday. (Exod 12 & 13; Lev 23.)
“and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening.”
“They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.”
This seems to state that the lambs will be killed on 14th Nissan (that is preparation day) and eaten once the Sun has gone down.
Exod 12:15a, 18
“ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread;
“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, and so until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.”
Verse 18 seems to imply that the Feast of Unleavened Bread is from the 14th until 21st but this is 8 days and it has to be 7 (according to verse 15a). If the day starts in the evening then the first evening is 15th and then there are 7 evenings.
Lev 23:5-6
“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the LORD's passover.
“And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
This also has the Passover meal on the evening of 14th Nissan and then seven days of “unleavened bread”.
Therefore it seems to me that my understanding of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread agrees with Rick (zeke25).
I can’t see anything about days of the week.