The Biblical Sabbath

I have been talking about the Sabbath in my books, and since I started this Bible Study online. Today, I will present how the Sabbath was reckoned in ancient time. I mentioned before that the Julian calendar was introduced only in 46 B.C. Then the Gregorian calendar that we have now followed in 1600 A.D. The Calendar that the Bible talks about obeys the following verse:

Psalm 104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down declares its coming.

I am striking through the phrase "knoweth his going down" because it does not make sense. I replace it with the phrase "declares its coming" based on direct translation from the Hebrew text. Maybe the translator had deadline to meet. The Hebrew word "yada" was translated to "knoweth", when it should be "declare".The Hebrew word "mabo" was translated to "going down", when it should be "coming". Furthermore, consider that in ancient Israel, they had a special day called the New Moon Day:

Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

This was the first day of the month, made known or declared by the first sunrise after the new moon. That is exactly what I mean by the phrase "the sun declares its coming." The New Moon day was followed by four "7-day weeks", as shown below:

Sabbaths fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th day of the month. The feast of unleavenecd bread is indicated above by "ULB", as in the following verses:

Leviticus 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S Yahuwah's passover.

Leviticus 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD Yahuwah: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

Leviticus 23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

The first day of the feast of unleavened bread (15th) is a Sabbath. The feast ends on the 21st. The next day (22nd) is a Sabbath. The feast of unleavened bread is fitted between two Sabbaths, the 15th and the 22nd of the first month of the Biblical Calendar. This presentation is not possible using the Gregorian calendar, because in it, the first day of the month does not fall on the new moon day.

The foregoing verses were written at the time of Moses. One thousand five hundred years later, the same calendar was used at the time of Paul. Clear explanation can be found in Chapter 7 of my book:

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