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NASB | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or in regard to [the observance of] a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. |
Subject: How do we know saturday is the sabbath d |
Bible Note: Thank you, Kalos for your reply. I never intended to state any facts in my post, I was trying to help the questioner imagine the way things were back in the timeframe of the OT, in which his inquiry was based. Yet my presumptions were not entirely unfounded, as the ones most likely to have originated the idea of a solar calendar would have been the Egyptians. This came about when they noticed that the star Sirius, in Canis Major, as being visible right before sunrise was something to take note of. The star had a yearly cycle only 12 minutes shorter than the sun, and after Sirius appeared in the east, the Nile would begin to flood. This could point to the new year being related to a geophysical event, not entirely astronomical. Based on this knowledge, they devised a 365-day calendar that seems to have begun around 4236 BC, the earliest recorded year in history. They eventually had a system of 36 stars to mark out the year (which equals about 10.5 days per week) and used three different calendars concurrently until approx 2,000 BC: a star-based calendar for agriculture, a solar year of 365 days, a lunar calendar for their festivals. Assyria was a kingdom of northern Mesopotamia in what is now northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey. For accounting, the Assyrians also used a kind of week, of five days, relating to the name of one of their officials. This way, interest on loans could be calculated for a number of weeks in advance independent of the inaccuracies of the civil year. At about the time of the conquest of Babylonia in 539 B.C., Persian kings made the Babylonian calendar the standard in the Persian Empire.The origin and history of the calendar year of 12 months of 30 days, plus five days (that is, 365 days), remain unknown. It became official under the Sasanian dynasty, approx 226 A.D. Thanks again, and God Bless |