| Many times, in the King James Bible the first day of the
month is called "the new moon of the such and so month," "but in other
translations we read "the first day of the such and so month". The Hebrew word for moon is "yareeach" and "labanah".
The word for month is
"chodesh". Chodesh is frequently mistranslated "moon" and "new moon" rather than "month" and "first of the month". Perhaps the translators believed in a lunar calendar and translated the Bible to fit their doctrine.
In Moses day
were the months based
on the Lunar calendar with 29-30 days
or were the months based
on the Solar calendar with 30-31 days?
Numbers 33 lists Israel's
encampments as they traveled from Egypt to Sinai.
A close look at these
encampments reveals that there were, for the most part, Sabbath day rests.
For example:
Numbers 33:10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped
(A Sabbath day of rest) by the Red sea.
Numbers 33:11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped
(A Sabbath day of rest) in the wilderness of
Sin.
Numbers 33:12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of
Sin, and encamped (A Sabbath day of rest) in
Dophkah.
Numbers 33:13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped
(A Sabbath day of rest) in Alush.
From a study of the Sabbath day rest encampments we can determine that Pentecost was the
sixth of Sivan. (Also that Abib and Zif, the first and second month had 31
days each.) On the next page there is a detailed analysis of the day-to-day events leading up
to Pentecost.
To get the following sequence correct, the Bible gives us a
a few clues. We need to play detective and put the pieces of the puzzle
together.
(1) Moses asked permission of Pharaoh to go three days journey into the wilderness to worship God. These
three days are the 15th, 16th,
and 17th of Abib. The 18th was a Sabbath. Exodus 3:18 and 5:3
(2) Three days journey from the Red Sea unto Marah. Marah
being the first Sabbath rest after passing through the Red Sea. Exodus
15:22. See following calendar page titled Abib - 1462 B.C day 25.
(3) The 15th of Zif was a Sabbath of rest at the wilderness
of Sin. Exodus 16:1-2 See calendar page Zif- 1462 B.C. day 15.
(4) Arrival at the wilderness of Sinai the same day of the week that they
left Egypt. Exodus 19:1. See calendar page 3rd Month - 1462 B.C. day 2
The sequence of events on the calendar pages shown on
the next three fulfills all
four conditions above mentioned:
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