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“Between the Two Evenings”
(Copyright 2023) by Fellow Servants (Minneapolis, Minnesota) God accounts days to begin at sunset. Gen. 1:5 Lev. 23:4, “These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.” v. 5, “On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.” Important to remember when God accounts for days to begin. Do you begin keeping the Sabbath at noon-6 p.m.? Ex. 12:6, killing of the sheep/goats on the 14th at twilight (dusk). Between dusk and darkness is “between the 2 evenings”. Note: The sun is set (1st evening) but when dark (2nd evening). v. […]
Between the Evenings… The Legal Time to Slay the Passover
(Copyright 2014) by T. Alex Tennent (Seattle, Washington) Some of the confusion as to whether the Last Supper was the Passover or not comes from the English translations of the original Hebrew words meaning “between the evenings.” The Jewish sources are clear that this period—the time to slay the Passovers—was to be in the afternoon of the 14th day. However, many English translators and commentators, believing that Jesus ate the Passover at the Last Supper (and that he also died at the proper time for the Passover sacrifice), portray the period of “between the evenings” as either evening or […]
Between the Evenings
(Copyright) by Richard Douglas Mauck and Sandra Faye Mauck (Internet) 1.a. “Between the evenings” is an uncomfortable concept for those not familiar with Biblical time keeping. But it is wording used eleven times in the Old Testament as confirmed by the Masoretic Text (MT), Jay P. Green Sr.’s Interlinear Bible (TIB) and Robert Young’s Literal Translation (YLT). It is not used in two popular translations: The King James (KJV) and the New International Version (NIV). Even though it is absent in the KJV translation and the word even or evening is substituted this does not negate the fact that the […]