WHEN DOES A DAY BEGIN?
Psalm 19:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork.
19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
The continued succession of day and night; which declares the glory of God, and the knowledge of Him made by these ordinances. The successive days thus impart instruction, or convey lessons about God and His appointed times.
19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Though they have no proper speech or language, there is a voice in them which is heard, declaring the glory of God and His handiworks.
19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
The Spring Equinox is the Sun's Tabernacle.
Chamber is H2646 chuppah, and means chamber, room, canopy, closet.
Race is H734 orach, and means way, path
Circuit is H8622 tequphah, and means a revolution, that is, (of the sun) course, (of time) lapse.
Coming round, circuit of time or space, a turning, circuit.
After the last day of the year, the 364th day, the sun goes into its tabernacle, finishing his circuit (tequpha).
When the sun comes out of its tabernacle, the day of the Spring Equinox, it starts to run a new race.
Enoch 72:1 The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the relations of each, according to their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their names and places of origin, and according to their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who was with me, who is their guide, showed me; and he showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto eternity, till the new creation is accomplished which dureth till eternity.
2 And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary the Sun has its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its setting in the western portals of the heaven.
3 And I saw six portals in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun sets and the moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of the stars and those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the west, and all following each other in accurately corresponding order: also many windows to the right and left of these portals.
4 And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire.
5 The chariot on which he ascends, the wind drives, and the sun goes down from the heaven and returns through the north in order to reach the east, and is so guided that he comes to the appropriate (lit. ' that ') portal and shines in the face of the heaven.
6 In this way he rises in the first month in the great portal, which is the fourth [those six portals in the cast].
7 And in that fourth portal from which the sun rises in the first month are twelve window-openings, from which proceed a flame when they are opened in their season.
8 When the sun rises in the heaven, he comes forth through that fourth portal thirty, mornings in succession, and sets accurately in the fourth portal in the west of the heaven.
9 And during this period the day becomes daily longer and the night nightly shorter to the thirtieth morning.
10 On that day the day is longer than the night by a ninth part, and the day amounts exactly to ten parts and the night to eight parts.
11 And the sun rises from that fourth portal, and sets in the fourth and returns to the fifth portal of the east thirty mornings, and rises from it and sets in the fifth portal.
12 And then the day becomes longer by two parts and amounts to eleven parts, and the night becomes shorter and amounts to seven parts.
13 And it returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises and sets in the sixth portal one-and-thirty mornings on account of its sign.
14 On that day the day becomes longer than the night, and the day becomes double the night, and the day becomes twelve parts, and the night is shortened and becomes six parts.
15 And the sun mounts up to make the day shorter and the night longer, and the sun returns to the east and enters into the sixth portal, and rises from it and sets thirty mornings.
16 And when thirty mornings are accomplished, the day decreases by exactly one part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven.
17 And the sun goes forth from that sixth portal in the west, and goes to the east and rises in the fifth portal for thirty mornings, and sets in the west again in the fifth western portal.
18 On that day the day decreases by two parts, and amounts to ten parts and the night to eight parts.
19 And the sun goes forth from that fifth portal and sets in the fifth portal of the west, and rises in the fourth portal for one- and-thirty mornings on account of its sign, and sets in the west.
20 On that day the day is equalized with the night, [and becomes of equal length], and the night amounts to nine parts and the day to nine parts.
21 And the sun rises from that portal and sets in the west, and returns to the east and rises thirty mornings in the third portal and sets in the west in the third portal.
22 And on that day the night becomes longer than the day, and night becomes longer than night, and day shorter than day till the thirtieth morning, and the night amounts exactly to ten parts and the day to eight parts.
23 And the sun rises from that third portal and sets in the third portal in the west and returns to the east, and for thirty mornings rises in the second portal in the east, and in like manner sets in the second portal in the west of the heaven.
24 And on that day the night amounts to eleven parts and the day to seven parts.
25 And the sun rises on that day from that second portal and sets in the west in the second portal, and returns to the east into the first portal for one-and-thirty mornings, and sets in the first portal in the west of the heaven.
26 And on that day the night becomes longer and amounts to the double of the day: and the night amounts exactly to twelve parts and the day to six.
27 And the sun has (therewith) traversed the divisions of his orbit and turns again on those divisions of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty mornings and sets also in the west opposite to it.
28 And on that night has the night decreased in length by a ninth part, and the night has become eleven parts and the day seven parts.
29 And the sun has returned and entered into the second portal in the east, and returns on those his divisions of his orbit for thirty mornings, rising and setting.
30 And on that day the night decreases in length, and the night amounts to ten parts and the day to eight.
31 And on that day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west, and returns to the east, and rises in the third portal for one-and-thirty mornings, and sets in the west of the heaven.
32 On that day the night decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to nine parts, and the night is equal to the day and the year is exactly as to its days three hundred and sixty-four.
Jubilees 2:9 And God appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and for sabbaths and for months and for feasts and for years and for sabbaths of years and for jubilees and for all seasons of the years.
The great sign of the sun is the Spring Equinox and it is used to calibrate the calendar.
It also calibrates the portals as the portals are measured by days, beginning when the sun rises and shines “on the earth”.
When the sun completes its circuit, it goes into its tabernacle. This is the Spring Equinox. When the sun rises, it comes out of its tabernacle and the New Year begins. The sun begins to run a new race.
Let's look at some definitions.
EVENING H6153 ereb
Strong's Definition: dusk: - + day, even (-ing, tide), night.
BDB Definition:
1) evening, night, sunset
1a) evening, sunset
1b) night
EVENING G3798 opsios
Strong's Definition: late; feminine (as noun) afternoon (early eve) or nightfall (later eve): - even (-ing, [-tide]).
Thayer Definition:
1) late
2) evening
2a) either from three to six o’clock p.m.
2b) from six o’clock p.m. to the beginning of night
SUNSET
Webster's Dictionary:
The descent of the sun below the horizon; or the time when the sun sets; evening.
The sun can no longer be seen with the physical eye. The time between sunset and night is called dusk or twilight, which is a mixing of light and darkness.
SUNRISE
Webster's Dictionary:
The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning.
Sunrise commonly refers to periods of time both before and after this point. Twilight, the period in the morning during which the sky is light but the sun is not yet visible, is called dawn.
DAWN G2020 epiphosko
To begin to grow light, to dawn
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Light = Day
Darkness = Night
The evening and the morning were the first day.
DAY H3117 yom
Strong's Definition: meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), age.
BDB Definition:
1) day, time, year
1a) day (as opposed to night)
1b) day (24 hour period)
1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
1b2) as a division of time
1b2a) a working day, a day’s journey
DAY can mean 12 hours or 24 hours.
24 hours = a 'cycle'.
12 hours = a 'season'. Day season has 12 hours. Night season has 12 hours.
Jeremiah 33:20 Thus saith Yahweh; If ye can break My covenant of the day, and My covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
John 11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
We see the 'day season' has 12 hours. Therefore, the 'night season' would also have 12 hours to complete the full 24 hour 'cycle'.
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.
The two 12 hour cycles are addressed. The 'light' first, the 'darkness' second.
The 24 hour 'cycle' of the light of day and the dark of night.
The 12 hour 'day season' is further divided into two parts:
A) ereb H6153 dusk, day, even, night
1. Dusk – a middle degree between light and darkness. (Webster's)
2. Twilight – the faint light, which is reflected upon the earth after sunset and before sunrise. (Webster's)
The 'light seen in the sky' during dusk is from the sun.
B) boqer H1242 dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning; early morning, morrow (mixture of light and darkness)
BDB Definition: of end of night
Dawn – the break of day; the first appearance of light, in the morning. (Webster's)
Both DAWN and DUSK segments of the 24 hour 'cycle' belong to the 'day season'.
The first 'light' on the first 'day' was not from the sun.
It was Yahweh's light.
There would not have been a small segment of 'dawn' on the first 'day', because Yahweh had not separated the darkness from His Light yet.
Once the sun was created/restored with Light on the 4th day, there would have been a 'dawn segment' of light following the 'night season'.
Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Notice that the words “he made” are in italics, which means those words were not in the original text but were added by the translators. There is another word that does not appear in the Bible text, though it is not in italics, and that word is “also”. This fact can be established by going to Strong’s Concordance and looking up the word. When this is done one finds there is no number next to the word 'also'.
The proper translation and reading is...
“And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: the stars.”
Notice “the stars” follows the colon (:). One dictionary’s definition of a colon is that the colon (:) is used to separate clauses when the second expands the first. So the words “the stars” expand the meaning of “greater and lesser lights.”
1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
The order is day-light, night-darkness.
The 'night season' never has 'light' from the sun. There are no divisions in the 'night season'.
The 'morning' and the 'evening' belong to the 'day season'.
Light was created/restored FIRST.
There was no 'dawn' on the 1st day.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
After 'light' was made/created/restored the evening followed.
After the evening turned to darkness; night followed.
When the night was over, the morning followed.
Morning begins the new 24 hour 'cycle'.
THE PROBLEM WORD 'and'. 'AND' is used 4 times in this verse.
The last 'and' is the problem.
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.
The last 'and' is an added word and is not found in the Hebrew text.
The word 'were' is H1961 hayah, to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, follow.
The 3 main definitions for 'were' are: to exist, to become, to follow.
The original reading reads as follows: “And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
Scripture does not state that 'night and morning' constitute a day, but 'evening and morning' constitute a day.
Evening does not, and cannot, refer to 'night'. Evening refers to the period of time between high noon and the point of darkness (which is night).
If we use the word 'followed/ing', from the definition of H1961 hayah, the verse reads “...the evening following the morning became the first day.”
The light season.
The hours of daylight only. It is talking about the morning (up to high noon) and evening (noon to dusk).
This is the 'day season', the 12 daylight hours. No night is involved.
Another translation (Good News Bible/German Bible-Schlachter & Elberfelder) reads: “And He named the light 'Day' and the darkness 'Night'. Evening passed and morning came – that was the first day.”
In this translation, we have a 24 hour cycle, including a full day and a full night following the day.
By inserting the correct word it actually reverses the order of the day, causing 'the evening to follow the 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.
The events of each day are given chronologically.
First, the creation activity.
Second, evening arrived (sundown).
Third, morning has arrived (sunrise).
Fourth, the first day has been completed because sunrise has occurred.
We are told that the day is over. Day/age one is over. Day two now starts, because the first day is over and it is light again.
The Sanctuary services were always calculated with the 'day' beginning at dawn.
1Samuel 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
1Chronicles 16:40 To offer burnt offerings unto Yahweh upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening,
2Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to Him, and to burn before Him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new months, and on the solemn feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
2Chronicles 31:3 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new months, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Yahweh.
Ezra 3:3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
Psalm 65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at Your tokens: You makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
There are 28 verses that declare the day precedes the night.
The word 'and' supplied by the translators replaced the better word of 'followed'.
Abram's covenant with Yahweh.
In Genesis 15 Yahweh tells Abram in a vision there is nothing to fear; he will be protected like a shield.
Then Abram was taken outside and told to count the stars, with the promise “so shall thy seed be.”
Next Abram receives the command to prepare a formal treaty contract, which consisted of a selection of animals and birds (heifer, she goat, ram, turtledove, pigeon), to be prepared in a specific manner.
This covenant with Abram was made during the start of what would become the beginning of the year, more specifically on what would become the 14th day of the first month, which was later known as Passover.
Abram prepared the five sacrifices, likely for a 3pm time, which was the set time for the evening sacrifice.
While Abram was waiting for Yahweh to fulfill His part of the covenant agreement, the birds of prey hovered continually over the sacrifices indicating this was the 'daylight season'.
Then it states in Genesis 15:12 that Abram fell into a deep sleep, induced by God, when the sun was going down. Abram received a vision telling him that his descendants would be foreigners and pilgrims in a land that does not belong to them for 400 years.
In Genesis 15:17 Yahweh completes the covenant.
Genesis 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces (sacrificial animals from v9).
Abram performed his part of the covenant during the 'light season'.
Yahweh performed His part of the covenant during the 'night season'.
This two-part covenant took place on the SAME (24 hour cycle) DAY.
The 'night' followed the 3pm evening sacrifices and was part of the 24 hour cycle of the 14th day of the first month (Abib).
Genesis 15:18 In the same day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram,
The same 24 hour cycle of the 'day season' and the 'night season'.
430 years later.
Exodus 12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Yahweh did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Jeremiah 34:13 Thus saith Yahweh, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen,
So we see:
Abib 14 | |||||
Daylight season | Night season | ||||
Dawn | Sunrise | Noon | 9th hour (3pm) | Dusk |
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Abram prepares the sacrifice for 3pm (Gen 15:10) | Yahweh fulfills His part of the covenant after the sunset, when it was dark. (Gen 15:17) | ||||
Abram's part of the covenant is complete | |||||
Abib 15 the Exodus begins | |||||
Egypt's Passover
Exodus 12:1-10.
Yahweh speaks unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt. He states that this month shall be the beginning of months: the first month of the year.
Yahweh instructs that each house must take a lamb on the 10th day of the month and keep it up until the 14th day of the month and kill it in the evening (between the evenings-12-6pm).
They were to strike the door posts of their houses with the blood.
The Israelites were to kill the lamb in the afternoon (3pm) on the 14th day and eat it that night.
None of the Passover lamb was to remain until the morning. The Israelites were not to leave their houses until the morning.
BETWEEN THE EVENINGS
Exodus 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in (H996 beyn) the evening (H6153 arbayim).
Beyn ha Arbayim is the time between noon and darkness.
'In the evening' is 'between the two evenings'.
From Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
Till the sun passed the meridian, all was morning or forenoon; after that, all was evening or afternoon.
The first evening began just after noon, and continued till sunset.
The second evening began at sunset, and continued till night.
The Passover was to be offered 'between the evenings', and eaten in the night hours, leaving nothing until the morning.
Between the evenings at the Cross. | ||
High noon | 3pm (9th hour) | Dusk |
Evening begins | Between the evenings | Evening ends |
2Chronicles 35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
35:13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance:
35:14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night;
35:16 So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the passover
They killed, cooked and ate the lamb on the 14th day of the first month. These tasks took place during the hours of the 'light season' AND the 'night season'.
The time after sundown was still the 14th day.
Exodus 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning (of the 15th day); and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
The Angel of Death passed over that same night. It passed over on Passover day at midnight, which was in the 'night season' of the 14th day of the first month.
Exodus 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
This is a specific command to begin eating unleavened bread on the 14th day of the first month at even, yet the Feast of Unleavened Bread does not begin until the morning of the 15th.
The Day of Atonement follows this pattern. Leviticus 23:23-32.
Your fast begins in the evening of the 9th day of the tenth month at even, yet the Day of Atonement does not begin until the morning of the 10th.
Leviticus 23:32 It (the DOA) shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls (fast): in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
The Day of Atonement had 2 requirements:
No manner of work is permitted.
Leviticus 23:28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Requirement 2:
Afflict your souls.
Leviticus 23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls,
23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
How you afflict your soul.
Isaiah 58:3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul,
Fasted H6684 tsum, to abstain from food.
Acts 27:9 Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past,
Fast G3521 nesteia (nace-ti'-ah), abstinence (from lack of food).
What day do we afflict our soul?
Leviticus 23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month...
When? ... at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
'Even' of the 9th day to 'even' of the 10th day.
When is the actual Day of Atonement?
Leviticus 23:27 ...on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement...
The affliction time (fasting time) starts at the 'even' of the 9th day.
Why?
The 'fast' began at 'even' on the 9th day until it was completed at 'even' 24 hours later, at the 'even' of the 10th day. No work is to be done during the daytime on the 10th day during the fast.
Once the Sanctuary Services for the DOA were completed, and the sins were removed form the camp, this would have been at the ending of the 'light season'. As dusk approaches, the fast would end with a wonderful dinner feast.
The pattern is the same for Passover and Atonement.
Passover is celebrated with Unleavened Bread on the 'even' of the 14th day of the first month.
Atonement is celebrated by fasting from 'even' of the 9th day of the seventh month to the 'even' of the 10th day.
Pharaoh's Chariots
This event shows that dawn starts the day.
Exodus 14:10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto Yahweh.
The Israelites observed the Egyptians a distance off during the 'light season'.
Exodus 14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which He will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
The Hebrew word for 'day' H3117 yowm can mean 12 hours or 24 hours, depending on context.
Were the Israelites 'free' of the Egyptians before sunset (the beginning of the new day according to sunset theory)?
Exodus 14:19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
14:20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Sunset came and went and their salvation was not yet complete.
According to sunset theory, once the sun sets, the new day begins.
Exodus 14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which He will shew to you to day:
“Today” evidently did not end at sunset during the hours of this incredible event. But...salvation did come during the 24 hour cycle.
Exodus 14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
The promise from Yahweh was: He would literally demonstrate to our Israelite ancestors His physical salvation.
The Angel of Yahweh relocated to the rear of the camp in the 'light season'.
Moses stretches out his arm to command the east wind. The strong wind divides the waters. The miraculous corridor is exposed, drying a path across the Sea of Reeds.
The towering walls of water on either side of the Israelites as they hurried to the other shore during the 'night season'. The sea water crashes, enveloping the doomed Egyptians in the morning just before dawn of the next day.
Yahweh showed His salvation to our ancestors “today” or 'that night'.
Exodus 14:24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch (2-6am)(just before dawn) Yahweh looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
14:25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for Yahweh fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
14:26 And Yahweh said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
All the events that occurred from the 'light season' of promise, spoken by Moses, until the minutes just before the dawn of the morning, were unfolding within Yahweh's time from the “today” (Exo 14:13) that started with the conversation between Moses and Yahweh.
Exodus 14:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and (by dawn) the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
The Manna Week
Exodus 16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
The Israelites were hungry and complaining to Moses. Yahweh told Moses first that He was going to feed them bread from heaven.
16:4 Then said Yahweh unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law, or no.
16:5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
Yahweh was preparing the people for the 7th day sabbath.
The 1st step was to collect one single omer per person per day, for 5 days in consecutive order.
The 2nd step was to collect a double portion on the 6th day to provide for the last 2 days of the week.
To effectively complete the 6 commanded tasks before the 7th day sabbath, it is necessary to begin at the point of commencement for day one – not in the middle of day one as sunset theory suggests.
Therefore, in Exodus 16:4-5, Yahweh was communicating with Moses on a 7th day sabbath, prior to the start of the first day of gathering the manna.
Exodus 16:8 And Moses said, This shall be, when Yahweh shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that Yahweh heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against Him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.
Moses declares the manna would arrive in the morning time (H1242 boqer).
The Israelites were specifically instructed not to leave any manna until the following morning, during the first 5 days, because the new manna would arrive the next morning, not at sunset. The manna was no longer edible the following morning – but was still fine at sunset.
According to Exodus 16:22 they were to gather twice as much on the 6th day, so they had enough for the 7th day sabbath.
Moses states in verse 23: “Tomorrow is the rest of the Holy Sabbath unto Yahweh...”
Why did Moses say “tomorrow” (referring to the 7th day morning) instead of saying “tonight” at sunset?
Roman Reckoning
Roman reckoning starts the civil 24 hour period from midnight to midnight.
Roman Reckoning Scriptures: Matt 27:19; John 19:13-14; 20:1,19.
Matthew 27:19 When he (Pilate) was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of Him.
What time did Pilate sit down?
John 19:13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
19:14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
19:16 Then delivered he Him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led Him away.
How is it possible for Pilate to be sitting on the judgment seat about the 6th hour, when according to Luke 23, Yahshua was already on the cross for 3 hours?
Luke 23:44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. (Matt 27:45; Mark 15:33)
At the 6th hour, the soldiers had already argued about His clothes, offered Him vinegar, put a sign above Him, and the conversation with the thief had already taken place.
Is John's witness saying something different than Matthew, Mark, and Luke?
What 'time' is this 6th hour that John was writing about?
We know that Matthew, Mark, and Luke were counting the hours in the Scriptural style.
That means dawn begins the count towards the next dawn from the 1st hour mark, to the 24th hour where the cycle ends.
In Matthew 27:19, what type of 'day' was Pilate's wife claiming?
Pilate's wife had a dream in “this day”.
We know Yahshua was in their court all night. It was very early in the morning when Pilate was interrogating Yahshua. For Pilate's wife to have a dream prior to this particular early morning, and claim it to be on the exact same day as when Pilate was seated in the judgment seat, it is necessary that pilate's wife had the dream sometime after midnight and before dawn.
John 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
Was this during the 'night season' hours of the sabbath?
Was it already the next day (Sunday in pagan Roman terms), the first day of the week?
Mary arrives in darkness at the first of the week (Sunday Roman reckoning)(final minutes of Abib 17).
Yahshua is resurrected before dusk Abib 17.
Mary arrives at the tomb upon the Sunday morning of Roman reckoning, which is already 6 hours into Abib 18 and still dark. John recorded the event in this way to achieve readership with the intended audience of the Roman Empire.
20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Here are more examples:
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Lot and his daughters
Genesis 19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
The next day followed the night.
The Hebrew word H4282 mochorath means morning, or more specifically a new day. Last night was another day, now on the morrow, it is a new day.
Exodus 10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
The day belonged to that night, then the morning came.
Exodus 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
The lamb is to be sacrificed in the day time on Abib 14; specifically, 'between the evenings' (noon-6pm).
12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
They were to eat the flesh that night, which is after sundown.
12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to Yahweh throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
The whole festival takes place on the one day of the 14th starting between the evenings and continuing that night until the sun rises and a new day starts.
Passover is not celebrated on two separate days: one for the sacrifice and the second for the feast.
The same counting of time occurs for FUB.
Exodus 12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
FUB is the 15th of Abib. It begins at sunrise, the beginning of a new day. Passover ended just before dawn.
Exodus 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even (sundown), ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even (sundown). (Ex 12:15,19; 13:6-7; 23:15; 34:18; Lev 23:6; Num 28:17; Deut 17:18)
12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourning kinsman, or born in the land.
Seven days there shall be no leavened bread eaten. This begins the night of Passover at sundown. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the 14th to the evening of the 21st.
Why then does it seem like it is saying to eat unleavened bread for eight days when the FUB is seven days?
Because at even (sundown) on Abib 21, the requirement to eat unleavened bread has ended. The remainder of Abib 21, sundown to sunrise there is no requirement to eat UB.
Exodus 16:22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which Yahweh hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto Yahweh: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Yahweh said “tomorrow” was the sabbath, then morning comes and Moses said “eat it today, for today is sabbath”.
16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
16:25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto Yahweh: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
16:27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
Exodus 18:13 And it came to pass on the morrow (the next day), that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
The next day starts in the morning.
Exodus 27:20 And you shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
27:21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Here we have 'evening to morning'. What's going on here?
Josephus says the whole of the seven lamps burned all the night; in the morning four were extinguished, and three kept burning through the whole day. Others assert that the whole seven were kept lighted both day and night continually.
It appears from 1Samuel 3:3, that these lamps were extinguished in the morning.
1Samuel 3:3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
'Went out' is H3518 kabah, and means to expire or (causatively) to extinguish: - go (put) out.
The Septuagint reads: “And the lamp of God was burning before it was trimmed, and Samuel slept in the temple, where was the ark of God.”
Exodus 30:7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
Dresses = Prepares the wicks, and puts in fresh oil for the evening.
30:8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even (sundown), he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
It appears therefore that the business of the priests was to light the lamps in the evening; and either to extinguish them in the morning, or permit them to burn out, having put in the day before as much oil as was necessary to last till daylight.
None of this implies that the day begins at evening. The Sanctuary duties began in the mornings.
Exodus 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to Yahweh.
32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Aaron said “tomorrow is a festival”. The festival started early the next day.
Leviticus 6:20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto Yahweh in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
The offering was to be brought to Yahweh in the morning, the beginning of the day.
Leviticus 7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
How can you eat the peace offering the same day and not leave any until the morning if the night begins the next day?
Leviticus 8:35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Yahweh, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
Day comes first, followed by night, seven times.
There are also a great number of Scriptures that declare uncleanness until evening. And certain events taking place before evening that could add to the error of assumption that a day begins at evening.
It is common sense to be made clean at evening so the persons may come into the camp to spend the night as it was unlawful for an unclean person to come into the camp. More importantly if the next day were a sabbath an individual would not be able to participate in any sanctified assembly and would have to wait for the next evening.
Leviticus 11:24-25, 27-28, 31-32, 39-40; 14:46; 15:5-8, 10-11, 16-19, 21-23, 27; 17:15; 22:6; Numbers 19:7-8, 10, 19, 21-22.
Leviticus 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is Yahweh's passover.
It is impossible to celebrate your Passover in the evening of the 14th and eat your meal that night if your day starts in the evening, and celebrating at night then you have passed into the 15th according to an evening to evening reckoning.
Leviticus 23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto Yahweh.
The tenth day of the seventh month begins at sunrise and ends the following sunrise.
23:28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
Sabbath of DOA differs from other sabbaths. The fast commences on the 9th day at eve, as it reads. The fast was for 24 hours, until the eve of the 10th. No work is to be done during the day of the 10th.
If the 'sunset theory' were correct, then the DOA would not be on the 10th, as instructed, it is now on the 9th. The sundown day starters have moved the DOA to start on the evening of the 9th, rather than follow the instructions to start FASTING on the evening of the 9th, and observing the sabbath of rest on the DOA on the 10th.
Numbers 11:32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
The day belongs to that night, then the next day comes.
Numbers 33:3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow (next day) after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
The morrow after the Passover is the 15th. A new day.
Exodus 12:42 It (Passover) is a night to be much observed unto Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Yahweh to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto Yahweh thy God: for in the month of Abib Yahweh thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Numbers 33:3 says that they departed on the day of Abib 15, and now here in Exodus 12:42 and Deuteronomy 16:1 we have additional information, showing that they departed after sundown on the 15th, after the daylight hours had transpired.
The Hebrews spoiled the Egyptians during the day of the 15th. They finished their packing and loading and lining up to prepare for their march, and probably beginning their march during the latter hours of the day. Remember, there were over 2 million people.
God ordered the Hebrews not to leave their houses after Passover, until the next morning, so they could not have left on the Passover evening of the 14th.
Exodus 12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
It is impossible for the Israelites to have departed the night of Passover.
Joshua 7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Yahweh until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
7:7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Yahweh GOD, wherefore hast You at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
7:8 O Yahweh, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
7:9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt You do unto Your great name?
7:10 And Yahweh said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
7:11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
7:12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
7:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith Yahweh God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
It was already evening when Yahweh told Joshua to sanctify themselves for tomorrow, so the day cannot begin in the evening.
Judges 19:9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
Rising early tomorrow implies the start of the day starting in the morning.
1Samuel 9:19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
9:20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?
9:21 And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
9:22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
9:23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
9:24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.
9:25 And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
9:26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
Rising early at the dawning of the day (spring of the day) again equates the start of the day in the morning.
1Samuel 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Forty days, beginning in the mornings.
1Samuel 19:10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
19:11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
It was already night when Michal told David to flee before the morning for tomorrow he was to be killed, so a day cannot begin in the evening.
1Samuel 28:8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
28:9 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
28:10 And Saul sware to her by Yahweh, saying, As Yahweh liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
28:11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
28:12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.
28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
28:14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
28:16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing Yahweh is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
28:17 And Yahweh hath done to him, as he spake by me: for Yahweh hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:
28:18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of Yahweh, nor executedst His fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath Yahweh done this thing unto thee this day.
28:19 Moreover Yahweh will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: Yahweh also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
If Saul came in the night and they were to fight with the Philistines tomorrow, how could the day begin at night?
1Samuel 30:17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
If a day was from evening to evening, the scriptures would not have to read the 'next day'.
2Samuel 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
24:14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for His mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
24:15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
The three day plague started in the morning, not in the night. It lasted for three 24 hour days, until the third evening.
The Septuagint reads: “...and Yahweh sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till noon”.
The Syriac and Arabic versions read: “until the sixth hour of the day”, which is noon.
The Targum reads: “from the time the daily sacrifice was slain until it was burnt”. Being from the morning until the time of the evening sacrifice, which was about 3pm, which is 'between the evenings'.
1Chronicles 16:40 To offer burnt offerings unto Yahweh upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of Yahweh, which He commanded Israel;
2Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to Him, and to burn before Him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new months, and on the solemn feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
2Chronicles 31:3 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new months, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Yahweh.
2Chronicles 35:14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
It is obvious that the slaying and roasting of the animals occurred during the daylight hours of Abib 14 and continued until nightfall. After sundown, did the Passover feast/meal begin.
There is no mention here, or in Exodus 12, nor anywhere else in Scripture, that a new day has begun and the Passover meal was occurring on Abib 15.
Ezra 3:3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
Nehemiah 13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
13:19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
13:20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
13:21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall (at night)? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
It was customary to close the gate at night and opened when sun is hot (Neh 7:3).
The merchants came on the 6th day, arriving at the end of the day, so Nehemiah shut the gates on them. The evening was not the beginning of the new day or the sabbath. As they lodge about the wall that evening, Nehemiah would not be laying his hands on them if it were the Sabbath. The sabbath comes after dark, in the morning at sunrise. The merchants never made it into the city the evening of the 6th day, nor were they allowed in on the sabbath day. Since the gates were closed at night, the merchants were kept out almost two days. From the evening of the 6th day to noon on the 8th day.
Job 4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Psalm 65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at Your tokens: You makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
Proverbs 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
John Wycliffe’s translation of 1380 AD. Proverbs 7:9 “In dark time, when the day draweth to night, in the darkness and mist in the night.”
“In the twilight” means after sundown; “in the evening” means in the afternoon or it can mean at sundown*; and “in the black and dark night” means after sundown and after twilight.
*Between the evenings refers to the first even/evening of a day which is noontime. The second even/evening is sundown. Between the evenings is, of course, between these two evenings. There is no afternoon in biblical time keeping, that period of the day is called 'evening' or 'between the evenings'. More examples: Num 9:1-5; 28:1-8; Exo 12:4-7; 16:10-12; 29:38-41; 30:7-8; Lev 23:4-6
Lamentations 3:22 It is of Yahweh's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
3:23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
New in the morning, because mornng is a new day.
Jeremiah 33:20 Thus saith Yahweh; If ye can break My covenant of the day, and My covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
33:21 Then may also My covenant be broken
The covenant of the day came first, then the night.
33:25 Thus saith Yahweh; If My covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
33:26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob
Jonah 4:6 And Yahweh God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
A morning starts the next day.
Zechariah 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to Yahweh, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
A 24 hour day is mentioned here.
Yahweh alone knows the day of the consummation of all things. Neither wholly "day," because overclouded with darkness; nor wholly "night," for the streaks of light burst through the darkness chequered of both; but in "eventide," when all seems ready to sink into the thickest night, "there shall be light." Divine light always breaks in, when all seems darkness; but then the chequered condition of our mortality comes to an end, then comes the morning, which has no evening; the light which has no setting; "perpetual light, brightness infinite;" when "the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold" Isaiah 30:26; and "the glory of God doth lighten" Revelation 21:23 the eternal city, "and the Lamb is the light" thereof; and "in Thy light we shall see light" Psalm 36:9. "Christ shall be to us eternal light, a long perpetual day."
Psalm 36:9 For with You is the fountain of life: in Your light shall we see light.
Matthew 27:57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
27:58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
The death of Yahshua was 'between the two evenings' (3pm).
Matthew 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
The sabbath was ending because the day was dawning.
How could the first day of the week begin at sunset when verse 1 states the dawning of the first day of the week?
Mark 15:42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
15:43 Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
Evening had come, the second even of the day (6pm).
Yet, verse 42 states that it was still the preparation day before the sabbath. In this case, the sabbath being spoken of is the day of Passover.
Mark 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint Him.
16:2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
First day of the week at the rising of the sun.
Luke 24:1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
Again, upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning.
If this were a sunset reckoning, then very early in the morning at the sun's rising would have been 6 hours into the Roman day and 12 hours into the Jewish day!
During the day, Jesus fed the five thousand. Jesus departs afterwards into a mountain Himself alone.
Here we see the second evening; for the first evening took place before they sat down to eat the loaves and fish.
Jesus had ordered His disciples to go before Him, that He might be clear of the multitude, and have an opportunity for solitary prayer.
Matthew 14:22 And straightway Jesus constrained His disciples to get into a ship, and to go before Him unto the other side, while He sent the multitudes away.
14:23 And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, He was there alone.
John 6:16 And when even was now come, His disciples went down unto the sea,
6:17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
6:18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
6:19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
Rowing for about three or four miles from the time it was dark, to the fourth watch, which was after 3am, they see Jesus walking on the water toward them.
6:20 But He saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
6:21 Then they willingly received Him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
6:22 The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto His disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with His disciples into the boat, but that His disciples were gone away alone;
It was already dark when these things took place, then the next day occurrs after the disciples had had such a bad voyage in the night. The people were hoping to find Him in the morning.
John 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
Dark is G4653 skotia and primarily means 'dim'. Mary came during the dawning of the first day of the week.
Acts 4:3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
It was dark. They put them in hold unto the next day. During the night the disciples taught the Word to the other prisoners and they believed.
4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow (the next day), that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
...gathered, and set them in the midst of them, and asked “By what power and name have they done this?”
Acts 16:9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
16:10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that Yahweh had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.
16:11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;
The next day followed the night.
Acts 23:31 Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
23:32 On the morrow (the next day) they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
Again, the next day followed the night.
Acts 27:27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;
Verse 27 tells us that the 14th night is upon them. The daylight hours of the 14th night are behind them.
In verse 28, they sounded, or let down their plummet; which was a line with a piece of lead at the end of it to find what depth it was, by which they could judge whether they were near land or not.
The first measure was twenty fathoms, which was about 120 feet. They went a little further and 'sounded' again, fifteen fathoms, or 90 feet.
27:29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
They wished for the light of the day, so they might see whether they were near land, or in danger of rocks.
27:33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Verse 33 tells us that “the day was coming on”. They could see that sunrise was approching for day 15 but the sun had not yet broken the horizon, therefore it was still the 14th day, between midnight and the break of day.
Paul is counting the number of days since they last ate.
Paul was using the word 'day' in a 24 hour sense.
If the day started at sundown, then only 13 daylights had passed since the fast started.
Paul said that it had been 14 days since they last ate.
I hope I provided enough info/verses/proof that the day begins with sunrise.
Let us not keep the way of darkness by observing a noon to noon madness, or a Babylonian and Jewish reckoning of sunset to sunset, or the pagan Roman reckoning of midnight to midnight.
We are children of the LIGHT.
John 12:35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
12:36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Ephesians 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in Yahweh: walk as children of light:
1Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Isaiah 2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE1Ekv1nuK8&list=WL&index=11&t=2537s
https://www.bibletimemarkers.com/a-day-begins-at-sunrise
https://torahislight.org/when-the-day-begins/