For the Hebrew, daybreak (the break of day) is at Sundown. Not sun up.
Gen 1 "...And the evening and the morning were the first day."
Forgive me...
Correct. A Hebrew Bible "day" is the period from sunset to sunset. It is divided in Hebrew into two parts, the light part, also called "day", and the dark part, called "night".
The Hebrew day begins with the night, passes through the light of day, and ends with the next night.
It is not 24 hours long. The 24 hour day is pure convention. It is a sunset-to-sunset event.
Which means, in the northern Sapmi of my forebears, that when the sun sets on the solar day of November 21st, and rises again for the first time 61 solar days later, on January 21st, that ONE Hebrew day has passed when the sun sets again on the evening of January 21st.
Similarly, when the sun sets on May 17th, starting a new Hebrew Bible day, and then sets again 70 solar days later, on July 26th, one single Biblical day has passed, sunset to sunset.
So, the solar year for my cousins in northern Sapmi is 365.25 days long, same as anywhere else on earth, but the Biblical calendar year in only 236 days long, because two of the days are 61 and 70 revolutions of the earth, respectively, without a sunset (or sunrise), either because the sun never rises to set (the "long night") or never sets to rise (the "midnight sun").
This is why I know that the Law of Moses should be read exactly as written: for Hebrews in Canaan, and that it was never intended for anybody else.
Many Christians ignore the parts where God, over and over, makes it explicit that in the law of Moses he is talking to Hebrews, and tells them that IF
they do all in it, they will get a farm in Israel (there is no promise of an afterlife at all in the Torah).
Many Christians have built a religion on the thought that the "Law of God" for all of mankind was given at Sinai but then applied to all, and moderated, by Jesus. This is obviously false - first of all because the Law of Moses SAYS ON ITS FACE that it is only for the Hebrews - its STATED PURPOSE is a contract to give the Hebrews a farm in Canaan - but more importantly because if it is for all mankind, then my people were always excluded from salvation. After all, we followed the commandment to fill ALL the land, by living North of the Arctic Circle. But that fact means that we must eat animal fat - agriculture is impossible. The primary staple, traditionally, is animal fat and some shellfish (for those by the sea). It's not possible (before modern transport) to eat unleavened bread, because it's not possible to grow anything by which to make bread. And of course it is not possible to keep any sort of absolute Sabbath day rest, without even lighting a fire (or tending it), because a Hebrew Saturday that falls on November 22nd means no cooking, or heating, or work, or even leaving the tent, for SIXTY SOLAR DAYS. And another SEVENTY SOLAR DAYS if Saturday falls on July 27th.
If the Sabbath were for all mankind, and the dietary laws, and not just for Jews in Israel, then the Sami are intentionally excluded from Salvation by God because of where we live. That, in essence, is what any sort of Judaizing really MEANS, concretely. Obviously, then, the worship of the old Noaidi customs would be superior, in such a case, to worship of (or even belief in) a God who damned us from the moment of our conception - because of where we were to be born - and gave no way to propitiate him, no sacrifice or action on our part that would mean anything. Such a God would be like aging - an implacable, irresistible foe who offered neither hope of anything better, nor any means to
That's why I know, for sure, that the Old Testament laws never were intended, at any point in history before or after Christ, to apply to anybody but Hebrews living in the land of Israel, first off because they SAY THAT on their very face, and second because if they really are intended for all of us, then Sami are damned unless we abandon our homeland, and if the Christian God is said to demand that, it's obvious that he doesn't exist at all and we have no need for him.
The Christian God DOES exist, and he never demanded that anybody but the Hebrews in Israel keep the sabbath or the dietary laws. This is obvious (a) by reading the text, and (b) to anybody on earth who lives above the Arctic Circle (and (c) anybody else on earth with a brain, whether he reads the text or not, who considers the fifth of the world's surface above and below the Arctic and Antarctic circles. If our religion makes those "no go" zones, our religion is false and needs to be replaced with something real.)(Our religion DOESN'T make those "No Go" zones - that's my point - but Judaized Christianity DOES - which is why I know that it's utterly false, a dead end, and useless belief set, for me and mine anyway).
The Torah applied to one single people in one geographic place. The God who gave it sent his Son to call everybody to follow HIM, not the Torah. All that is lost if the Old Testament is discarded is the historical record of what came before the Son. There is not one single applicable law in the Bible before Matthew.
Anybody who says otherwise cannot read the plain text.
And anybody who is illiterate like that, in the process, rejects the possibility of salvation for all Sami and all Inuit and all Chukchi, and Evenk and the rest of the people of the far North.
Obviously no Arctic people have any use for a religion that damns them outright because of the geography of their birth.
Equally obviously, if Moses' laws still apply today, Jews are excluded by God from ever living in the far North.
(Why anyone would WANT to live in the far North is an entirely separate (and entirely reasonable) question. But that's more of a question of sanity than theology.)
Anyway, I thought I would write that, because Sami like me are proof in the flesh that all Judaizing is false religion - OR that we were born to be damned. And if that is the case, then we have no need or time for the religion that says so.