The Jewish Calendar and Feasts
Author: Steve Amato
Description: The Jewish Calendar and Jewish Feasts
Keywords: bible study,Jewish Calendar, Bible Calendar, Bible feasts

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# The Jewish Calendar

The Jews used two kinds of calendars: Civil Calendar: official calendar of kings, childbirth, and contracts Sacred Calendar: from which festivals were computed
Names of Months | Corresponds with | No. of Days | Month of Civil Year | Month of Sacred Year
Tishri Heshvan Chislev Tebeth Shebat Adar Nisan Iyar Sivan Tammuz Ab * Elul | Sept-Oct Oct-Nov Nov-Dec Dec-Jan Jan-Feb Feb-Mar Mar-Apr Apr-May May-June June-July July-Aug Aug-Sept | 30 29 or 30 29 or 30 29 30 29 or 30 30 29 30 29 30 29 | 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th | 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
* Hebrew months were alternately 30 and 29 days long. Their year, shorter than ours, had 354 days. Therefore, about every 3 years (7 times in 19 years) an extra 29-day- month, VEADAR, was added between ADAR and NISAN.
The Jewish Day was from sunset to sunset, in 8 equal parts:
First Watch Second Watch Third Watch Fourth Watch First Watch Second Watch Third Watch Fourth Watch | Sunset to 9 P.M. 9 P.M. to Midnight Midnight to 3 A.M. 3 A.M. to Sunrise Sunrise to 9 A.M. 9 A.M. to Noon Noon to 3 P.M. 3 P.M. to Sunset

# Jewish Feasts

Feast of | Jewish Calendar Month | Day | Month | Ref
* Passover (Unleavened Bread) | Nisan | 14-21 | Mar-Apr | Ex. 12:43-13:10 Matt 26:17-20
* Pentecost (First Fruits or Weeks) | Sivan | 6 (50 days after Passover) | May-June | Deut 16:9-12 Acts 2:1
Trumpets Rosh Hashanah | Tishri | 1,2 | Sept-Oct | Num. 29:1-6
Day of Atonement Yom Kippur | Tishri | 10 | Sept-Oct | Lev 23:26-32 Heb 9:7
* Tabernacles (Booths or Ingathering) | Tishri | 15-22 | Sept-Oct | Neh 8:13-18 John 7:2
Dedication (Lights) Hanukkah | Chislev | 25 (8 days) | Nov-Dec | John 10:22
Purim (Lots) | Adar | 14,15 | Feb-Mar | Esth 9:18-32
* The three major feasts for which all males of Israel were required to travel to the Temple in Jerusalem (Ex. 23:14-19)

From Nelson's Complete Book of Bible Maps & Charts pg 48,169

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