Don't Assume The Day Always Begins at Midnight

Most of us, in the Western world at least, assume the calendar day starts and ends at midnight, but this has not always been so -- and with some people it still is not today.


There was no set way of counting days following the Noachian Flood and the spread of civilizations throughout the Middle-East. Some began and ended their days in the evenings. Some started each new day at sunrise. Some began a new day at midnight.


Like us  the ancient Egyptians and Romans had a day that ran  from midnight to midnight. But the Babylonians started their days at sunrise. But others like the Jews. Numidians and Phoenicians set a 24 hour day which ran from one evening to the next -- from one sunset to the next.


This was a pattern established by Jehovah God in his six creative days were one day started in the evening and ended the following morning ( Genesis 1: 5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31) and in his commands to observe the seventh day as a Sabbath at Leviticus 23: 28, 32 were he said: "from one evening to the next you should observe your sabbath."


This is a custom still practiced by modern day Jews.