Section 11
As we progress through the scriptures we can understand that days, weeks, months, and years are all a form of appointed timekeeping that are all interrelated and dependent upon one another.......they are all Yahwah's way of appointing time. We've seen that the light of the yarakh is the key to accurately reckoning the timing of Yahwah's khagim (festivals), His khadashim (months/new moon renewals), and His shabathwath (weeks culminating in the sabbath)...they all are interrelated to one another.
I would like to go back to Barashayath (Genesis) chapter one and look at an interesting verse. In verse four we read, "...And Alahim (Heb. - "The Almighty") saw the light that it was pleasing and Alahim divided the light from the darkness, and Alahim called the light day and the darkness He called night, so evening and morning were the first day." (italics added). In reading this we could think that by calling the above evening and morning the "first" day, there is scriptural support that this day was the first day of an unbroken chain of weeks that is reckoned separately from the light of the yarakh. That is what the scripture could appear to be saying, but let's look at it in the Hebrew text (verse 5), "...and the evening and the morning were day one (Heb. "yawam akhad") - "day one" or "day united"). The translator/s chose to use the word "first" where the text uses the word "one". In the use of numbers there are two forms of counting, ordinal and cardinal. I will use the husband and wife model to illustrate the difference between the two. Rabkah and I are one (heb. "akhad") husband and wife, we are one (heb. "akhad") flesh...this is the cardinal use of the number "one". We are not the "first" husband and wife, we are "one" (akhad) husband and wife. The first (heb. "rashawan") husband and wife were, of course, Adam and Khawah (Eve). This is an example of the ordinal use of the number "one". When the number "one" (heb. "akhad") is used as the beginning of a sequence of numbers it is referred to as "rashawan", or first in English. Again, Rabkah and I are one husband and wife, thus we are "akhad"; properly translated "one", literally meaning, "united" (as one). So when the above text is properly translated, it would be rendered, "evening and morning were day one, or day unified." If this scripture were to say that evening and morning on that day were the first day (of ordinal, continual counting), then it would be properly rendered "yawam ha rashawan", or "day the first" ("the first day"). Now, what's interesting is that we go to day two in the creation week text and the scriptures use the ordinal form of numbering for the days following day one; thus rendering them, "the second day", "the third day", "the fourth day", and so on (verses 8,13,19,23,31)......So, in the Barashayath/Genesis text there was day one (of the week), and then the second day, the third day, the fourth day, the fifth day, the sixth day and the seventh day; illustrating the segment of appointed time from the beginning referred to as "six days you shall work and the seventh day is a day of rest." Remember, Yahwah refers back to the creation week account when He gives Yasharal the commandments on the tablets of stone (Shamwath/Exodus 20:11). Yahwah appears to be establishing the framework of what a week (Heb. "shaba;" or "sevened") is comprised of (seven days), not the institution of a system of seven day segments that operate independently from His method of reckoning time in unity with His creation and His word. We are not to add or take away from His words. The word "rashawan" (first) wasn't what was used here in His word and if we add the word "first"
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