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You do know that the reckoning of the "hours" was not based on 60 minutes and no one had watches and alarm clocks in the days of Jesus right? In fact the hours of the day were determined by the shadows cast on the sun dial that was divided into equal parts to determine the hours of the day which were shorter or of longer duration depending on the time of the year...
"The concept of an hour is Egyptian. Originally in Egypt the sundial divided the daylight into 10 portions, plus two “twilight hours” (morning and evening), for a total of twelve portions. In Yeshua’s time the Romans also divided the sun’s shadow into 12 “hours.” According to this method, an hour was not 60 minutes long, as we think of it today. Rather, an hour was however long the sun cast its shadow between those particular marks on a sundial. Hours varied in length, being longer in the summer and shorter in the winter. However, what we need to see here is that while Yeshua used that term in the days of the Roman occupation (because people were familiar with the term), it has nothing to say about the way Yahweh originally defined a day as being a nighttime portion, followed by a daylight portion (and lasting for what today we would call “24 hours”).
Because some mistakenly believe the tem “day” can only refer to a 12-hour period of daylight (and not the 24 hours of night-and-then-day), numerous elaborate theories have been constructed about the calendar. Some of these include the belief that the day begins at morning, the belief that the day begins at noon, and the belief that Yom Kippur is actually two days long, etc. It is not our purpose to detail these theories here, but all of these many theories fall apart if we realize the term “day” refers both to a (+/-) “12-hour” period of daylight, and also to the 24-hour period of darkness and light that lasts from evening to evening." - Nazarene Israel
So you are wrong in your interpretation of a 24 hour period as we know it today of 12 literal hours of day and night. Even under today's understanding of time with minuets, and 60 minuets making 1 hour and 24 hours making one day depending on the time of the year and location both day length and night length vary throughout the year. So even in modern reckoning of time your interpretation of a literal 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night is wrong. So your wrong on both accounts. Wrong on the interpretation of time reckoning as to what Jesus was referring to in John 11:9 and wrong on modern day reckoning of time throughout the year.
As posted earlier you are wrong. The darkness does not end the day it is the beginning of the day according to the scripture.
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The Hebrew word meaning for "evening" ערב; ‛ereb; means night and "morning" בּקר; bôqer means; tomorrow (after night) or coming of daylight. Hence "evening to evening" or both the "darkness and the light" make up the day.
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Q1. WHEN DOES A DAY START AND END IN GOD'S TIME?
Genesis 1:1-5, [1], In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. [2], And the earth was without form, and void; AND DARKNESS {darkness first} WAS ON THE FACE OF THE DEEP. AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS. [3], And God said, LET THERE BE LIGHT: AND THERE WAS LIGHT {light second}. [4], And God saw the light, that it was good: and GOD DIVIDED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS. [5], And GOD CALLED THE LIGHT DAY, AND THE DARKNESS HE CALLED NIGHT. And the EVENING {evening and darkness came first} AND THE MORNING {morning and light came second} WERE THE FIRST DAY
A1. Darkness and Daylight are one day = Evening to evening = a day
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Q2. WHEN DOES SABBATH START AND END?
Leviticus 23:32 It shall be to you a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, FROM EVEN {sunset} TO EVEN {sunset}, SHALL YOU CELEBRATE YOUR SABBATH.
A2. The Sabbath starts at evening darkness and end at darkness = Sunset to sunset or evening to evening.
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All of the scriptures dear friend agree with each other here and are in harmony with each other. The scriptures you ignore here dear friend shows your teachings are not biblical.
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