3555 — The Jewish Month
By Editor
Please explain by actual count the process of deducing thirty days to a Jewish month from Genesis. C. E. C. If our inquirer will turn to Genesis, chapter 7, it will be quite easily seen. Verse 11: "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." Verse 4 of chapter 8: "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat." From the second month, the seventeenth day, to the seventh month, the seventeenth day, were just five months; and then we are told in verse 24 of chapter 7, "The waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days." And again in the third verse of chapter 8, "And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased." Thus the five months equaled one hundred fifty days, or thirty days to the month.