When Does The Rooster Crow? David Field July 29, 2013
Just because you decide to begin obeying Torah, does not mean you should follow Orthodox Judaism, like a day starting the night before. This is a misunderstanding of bible. A day begins at daybreak. It always has. When else would it start, the night before? When do you begin your day? When does the rooster crow? Matthew 20:3
And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the market.
It is understood by all bible scholars that in the above story Yahusha told, the third hour is our 9 to 10 AM. It is understood the 1st hour correlates to our time between 6 and 7 AM.
Genesis 1:19 And there was evening, and there was morning, day four.
Someone is going to say, “This says the evening and the morning makes a day.” It does not say the night and the day together are a day. That is reading into it the words.
Leviticus 23:32 It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall humble your souls in the ninth of the month at evening; from evening until evening you shall keep your Sabbath.
This is thought to instruct us to celebrate the Sabbath from sundown to sundown. The Hebrew word "ereb" that was translated to even, or sundown, meant, "when the sun was down", all night, or anytime during the darkness, after sundown or before daybreak. So between the two nights is the day. During the day is when you celebrate your Sabbath because while the sun is up is a day. The "at sundown" part the KJV renders, is not in the original Hebrew text.
”We attach a meaning of a word from the Bible based on our own language and culture to a word that is not the meaning of the Hebrew word behind the translation. This is often a result of using our modern western thinking process for interpreting the Biblical text. For proper interpretation of the Bible it is essential that we take our definitions for words from an Ancient Hebraic perspective. Our modern western minds often work with words that are purely abstract or mental while the Hebrew's vocabulary was filled with words that painted pictures of concrete concepts.” Ancient Hebrew Research Center
While the sun is up is a day, and while the sun is down and the moon is up is the night. So simple there could be no other way. How odd it really is blowing a shofar at sundown, getting all worked up then hit the hay. It would be more natural to do that in the morning, as the roosters do. Even the rooster knows when a day begins.