Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria
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In the standard calendar, there are two terms of night. The first begins at midnight and continues until dawn. The second begins with nightfall and continues until midnight. In the Hebrew calendar, each day has two evenings. In the Hebrew calendar, - the first evening begins during sunset and continues until nightfall. The second evening of the day starts at 3 pm and continues until after sunset but before nightfall (nominally 6 pm). There was some Rabbinical argument about whether the first evening spanned 12 minutes or 18 minutes - though there was agreement that it was long enough to walk 2000 cubits.
The Hebrew calendar day starts nominally at 6pm. The day starts in the evening. By the Torah rite, whichever passage is read, the procedure is the same.
A: The Passover is sacrificed in the evening, under the setting sun.
B: The Passover is sacrificed between the evenings (daybreak: between 2nd evening of the 13th, 1st evening of the 14th.)
In both cases, the Passover is to be eaten that night with nothing left over til the following day.
IIRC Josephus makes mention of that rite, nominating it as the rite that "we" follow. He also mentions the alternative (temple) procedure, stating that the Jews conduct their sacrifice, beginning at the 9th hour (3pm) and continuing until the eleventh (5pm). In the Temple rite, the sacrifice is eaten in the night of the following day. /IIRC
All that has happened is that Jesus and the disciples celebrated the Passover according to the Torah rite. The lamb is sacrificed on the same day that the temple rite conducts the sacrifice, but 21 hours earlier, and the sacrifice is eaten on the fourteenth in the Torah rite, not the fifteenth.
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