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In the Hebrew Bible one meets various terms for different parts of the day: šaḥar (dawn); bōqer (morning); ṣohŏrayim (noon); neep (twilight); ʿereb (evening); layl̯ (night); and ḥăṣı̂ laylâ (midnight). There are also references to the various watches of the night (e.g., Exod 14:24; Judg 7:19; 1 Sam 11:11; Lam 2:19; Matt 14:25; Mark 13:35), and Matt 20:1–16 and John 11:9 indicate that the daytime was divided into 12 hours.

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