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Calendar was not unknown to the Ancient Hebrews ; as will appear, 

 on comparing the following names of months : * 



HEBREW. MUSLIM. 



2. VI, Ziou, or Zif (1 Kings vi. 1 and 37), 2. Suf'ax. 



8. Sn, BaocX, or Bui (1 Kings vi. 38), . 3. Eaiee'a e?-Ow'wal. 

 V?X, EXouX, or Elul (Neh. vi. 15, and 



1 Mace. xiv. 27), 5. Gooma'd el-Ow'wal,orGooma'da-7-0o7a. 



7. D'jfiX, Adaviv, Ethaniin (1 Kings viii. 2), 6. Gooma'd et-Ta'nee, or Gooma'd«-?-7V- 



niyeh. 



2siouaX (Baruch), 10. Show'wa'l. 



12. The Third Calendar used by the Egyptians, or the "Sacred" 

 Calendar, which enumerated the days, has been already noticed. It 

 should however be observed, that this Enumeration was regulated and 

 greatly aided by means of thirty-six " deccans ;" each bearing a sepa- 

 rate name, and consisting of ten days. 



13. On proceeding now to our minor divisions of time, the following 

 coincidences may be remarked : 



The radius of a circle has been found to describe a hexagon within 

 the circumference. 



From remote and unknown Antiquity, it has been the practice, to 



* In regard to the date couveyed by the terms in which tbe Exodus is narrated, It is 

 clear, That the event took place when the Egyptian month Abib fell in the Spring. But 

 the statement in Ex. ix. 31 and 32, seems to refer to some local peculiarity, that may 

 designate the season within yet narrower limits. According to the Jewish mode of cele- 

 brating the Passover, the earliest date for the Exodus, 



April 12 + May 31 + June 30 + July 19 = 92 

 Abib 16 + Misra 30 + Epagomena 5, . =51 



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 4 1413 B. C. 



1460 : 1539 : : 164 : 172|J|, 



may be placed at about B. C. 1240 ; 



if, however, as modern Astronomers assert, the Rising of Sirius really recedes from the 

 Equinox, this, perhaps, might place the Exodus some fifty years earlier. For the present, 

 I shall only remark, that another element remains to be considered, before we can 

 positively fix the date : Moses would naturally select the time of full-moon for a journey 

 in the Desert, but the Egyptian month Abib is not a lunar month. That the Abib in 

 question was the well-known Egyptian month bearing that name, appears from the esta- 

 blishment of Pentecost; celebrated for the first time, as will be seen above, on the last 

 day of the Egyptian Year. 



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