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11/26/2014 3:22 am
Did You Know? Why Did the Jews Begin Their Sabbath Observance in the evening?

When Jehovah gave His people the law concerning the Day of Atonement, He said: "You must do no sort of work on this very day....It is a sabbath of complete rest for you....From evening to evening you should observe your sabbath." (Leviticus 23:28, 32)

This command reflected the view that each day began in the evening, after sunset, and ended at the subsequent sunset. For the Jews, the day thus ran from evening to evening.

This method of counting days followed the pattern set by God Himself. The account concerning the first figurative day of creation states: "There came to be evening and there came to be morning, a first day." The successive "days" are also counted in the same way, beginning in the "evening." (Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31)

The Jews were not the only people to reckon days in this way. The Athenians, the Numidians and the Phoenicians did likewise. The Babylonians, on the other hand, considered sunrise to be the beginning of each new day, while the Egyptians and the Romans reckoned their days from midnight to midnight, as is the modern custom. Present-day Jews, however, still begin and end their Sabbath observance at sundown.