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Reckoned from sunset to sunset by the Hebrew. ; "the evening and the morning were the first day." ; "a night and a day." margin. So our fortnight equals fourteen nights. "Evening, morning, and noon" () are the three general divisions. Fuller divisions are: dawn, of which the several stages appear in Christ's resurrection (; ; , "the bright and morning star" answering to Aijeleth Shahar, "gazelle of the morning," Psalm 22 title; ; ); sunrise; heat of the day; the two noons (tsaharaim, Hebrew; ); the cool of the day (); evening (divided into early evening and late evening after actual sunset).
Between the two evenings the paschal lamb and the evening sacrifice used to be offered. "Hour" is first mentioned ; ; . The Jews learned from the Babylonians the division of the day into twelve parts (). Ahaz introduced the sun dial from Babylon (). The usual times of prayer were the third, sixth, and ninth hours (; ; ). "Give us day by day our daily bread" (); i.e., bread for the day as it comes (epiousion arton).