The Jewish Calendar
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The Jews used two kinds of calendars:
      Civil Calendar--official calendar of kings, childbirth and contracts.
      Sacred Calendar--from which festivals were computed.

Names of
Months

TISHRI
HESHVAN
CHISLEV
TEBETH
SHEBAT
ADAR
NISAN
IYAR
SIVAN
TAMMUZ
AB
*ELUL

Corresponds
With

Sept.-Oct.
Oct.-Nov.
Nov.-Dec.
Dec.-Jan.
Jan.-Feb.
Feb.-Mar.
Mar.-Apr.
Apr.-May
May-June
June-July
July-Aug.
Aug.-Sept.

No. of
Days

30
29 or 30
29 or 30
29
30
29 or 30
30
29
30
29
30
29

Month of
Civil Year

1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th

Month of
Sacred Year

7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th

The Jewish day was from sunset to sunset, in 8 equal parts:

1st Watch....Sunset to 9 P.M.
2nd Watch...9 P.M. to Midnight
3rd Watch....Midnight to 3 A.M.
4th Watch....3 A.M. to Sunrise

1st Hour....Sunrise to 9 A.M.
3rd Hour....9 A.M. to Noon
6th Hour....Noon to 3 P.M.
9th Hour....3 P.M. to Sunset

*Hebrew months were alternately 30 and 29 days long. Their year, shorter than ours, had 354 days. Therefore, about every 3 years (7 times in 19 years) an extra 29 day month, VEADAR, was added between ADAR and NISAN.

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