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Calendars today are typically printed on paper or installed on smart phones. These calendars include holidays observed on dates often assigned by governmental legislation. But how were holidays scheduled and taught in biblical Israel? And what might these holidays have to do with the creation narrative? In this book, Michael LeFebvre considers the calendars of the Pentateuch with their basis in...

Our focus in the chapter has been on months and days, but there is also an interesting pattern in the years attached to events in the exodus narrative. Events assigned to the first year of the exodus are all “original” events: the original Passover night and Unleavened Bread escape, the original Sinai event, and so forth. Events assigned to the second year were all inaugural tabernacle-centered events: installation of the tabernacle, the first tabernacle Passover, the first alternate Passover, and
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