Reading the Bible in Historical Sequence Part 1Sample

Pharaoh submits when all the firstborn die. The ‘passing over’ begins the annual Passover feast. The Hebrews, under God’s direction, start their lunar calendar.

Note: The Jewish calendar was lunar with the new moon starting each month (Psalm 81:3; Isaiah 1:14). About every third year a thirteenth month was added to bring the year more correctly into phase with the sun. When the Hebrews escaped from Egypt God told them to start a new spiritual year from the seventh month (Exodus 12:2). It began with the new moon in March/April with the month Abib, later called Nisan. Their secular calendar began around our September–October with the blowing of trumpets (Leviticus 23:24) on Rosh Hashanah their new year’s day.