The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary On the Astronomical Referen
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary On the Astronomical Referen
Maunder Edward Walter
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On the 15th day of the month began the Feast of Tabernacles, which commenced on the night that the moon was full, and lasted for a week. We have no special religious seasons in the Christian Church to correspond with these. We thus see that with the Hebrews all the days of the new moons, and two days of full moon (in the first and in the seventh months), were days for which special ordinances were imposed. And there is no doubt that the beginnings 296 THE ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLE of the new month...s were obtained by direct observation of the moon, when weather or other conditions permitted, not by any rule of thumb computation. The new moon observed was, necessarily, not the new moon as under- stood in the technical language of astronomy ; i. E. The moment when the moon is in "conjunction" with the sun, having its dark side wholly turned towards the earth, and being in consequence completely invisible. "The new moon " as mentioned in the Scriptures, and as we ordinarily use the term, is not this conjunction, but the first visible crescent of the moon when it has drawn away from the sun sufficiently to be seen after sunset for a short time, in the twilight, before it sets ; for the moon when very slender cannot be seen in daylight.
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