Joseph F. Dumond

Isa 6:9-12 And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed. Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation, and until Jehovah has moved men far away, and the desolation in the midst of the land is great.
Published: Nov 7, 2007

Ezekiel’s 30 days or The Thirteenth Month

An article was written that I do not wish to withhold from you, the readers of this website. It is called Ezekiel’s 30 days or The Thirteenth Month .

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  1. Stan pethel

    Hi, are there PDF’s on all of this I could print out, also, it seems to me that 3 things come to mind when trying to figure this calendar out. 1 the equinox, 2 the barley, 3 the moon. Would this be accurate and would it be something I could follow safely?

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    • Joseph F. Dumond

      Yes there are. Just look below the titles and the print button is set up for PDFs
      The Equinox does not have anything to do with the calendar. The Barley determines the beginning of the year. The Crescent moon the beginning of the month.
      Yes it something you can follow easily. We have been doing this since 2005.

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      • Stan pethel

        Ok thanx for the response, but I have a couple questions to add to the equinox topic, #1 Strong’s number H 8622 . 4 times mentioned, and 4 times it has something to do with a circuit or time period . Genesis 1:14 explains not only the moon, but also stars and Sun are there to determine seasons. Also, revelation 12:1 is describing the base meaning but also a constellation, that Constellation would be a sign in season during resurrection, it’s associated with yom Terruah and even in the Greek “harpazo” was used for that continuing description. In some circles, it is almost exact when going by the first sliver just after an equinox. For example, this year Trumpets was celebrated September 10-11, but it’s not even fall season yet. Most who understood the correct calculation is going with October 10-11 because it’s actually in season. The equinox passes around the 23rd or so of September.the new moon is October 9th from Israel.. it is my understanding that the Barley is not just a handful but the whole fields ..isn’t that correct? And if so, wouldn’t Nissan 1 have been 1 month forward this year?

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        • Joseph F. Dumond

          Stan I think you need to read this.
          https://www.karaite-korner.org/abib_and_tekufah.shtmlAbib FAQ:
          Vernal Equinox and Tekufah
          Q: Is the equinox (Tekufah) mentioned in the Tanach (Hebrew Bible)?
          The claim has been made by proponents of the equinox calendar theory that the word equinox actually appears in the Tanach. They are referring to the word Tekufah or Tequfah which appears in the Hebrew Bible four times. Tekufah is in fact the post-Biblical word for “equinox”, however, it never has the meaning of “equinox” in the Tanach. In Biblical Hebrew, Tekufah retains its literal meaning of “circuit”, that is something which returns to the same point in time or space [from the root Nun.Quf.Pe. meaning “to go around”]. To claim that Tekufah means equinox in the Tanach, just because it had this meaning in later Hebrew, is an anchronism. This would be like saying that there were handguns in ancient Israel because the word EKDACH, the post-Biblical Hebrew word for handgun, appears in Isaiah 54:12. Let us consider another example of this anachronistic use of language: Before the invention of the electronic computer during World War II, the word “computer” referred to a man who sat at a desk calculating (computing) mathematical equations. Imagine if we found an 18th century document mentioning “computers” and proclaimed to the world that there were really electronic computers in the 18th century. This is exactly what the equinox-followers are doing with the word Tekufah. To better understand this, let us consider the four appearances of Tekufah in the Tanach.
          Tekufah in Exodus 34:22
          The first appearance of Tekufah is in the list of Pilgrimage-Feasts (Hagim) in Ex 34:22 which refers to the agricultural character of the Feast of Booths (Sukkot):
          “And the Feast of Ingathering at the circuit of the year (Tekufat HaShannah).”
          Being mislead by the Post-Biblical Hebrew meaning of Tekufah, some have interpreted “circuit of the year” anachronistically to refer to the Autumnal Equinox (it is doubtful whether the ancient Israelites even knew of the equinox and they certainly had no way of calculating when it would be). This anachronistic reading leads to the suggestion of fixing the beginning of the year so that Sukkot (The Feast of Ingathering) falls out at the time of the Autumnal Equinox. However, a closer investigation shows that “circuit of the year” has nothing to do with the equinox. The list of Pilgrimage-Feasts also appears in a parallel passage in Ex 23:16 which describes Sukkot as follows:
          “And the Feast of Ingathering at the going out of the year (Tzet HaShannah), when you have gathered in your work from the field.”
          Exodus 34 is actually an almost verbatim paraphrase of Exodus 23 and it is important to compare and contrast these two passages; the differences are often very enlightening. Comparing Ex 34:22 and Ex 23:16 it is clear that the “going out of the year” and the “circuit of the year” refer to the same time. The “going out/ circuit” of the year is described in Ex 23:16 as “when you have gathered in your work from the field”. This agricultural ingathering is also described in Dt 16:13:
          “You shall keep the Feast of Booths for seven days, when you have gathered in from your threshing floors and from your wine presses.”
          The Feast of Booths/ Ingathering is described as the “going out of the year” because it takes place at the end of the yearly agricultural cycle of planting, harvest, threshing, and ingathering. At the same time, Sukkot is described as taking place at the “circuit of the year” because once the agricultural cycle ends it then immediately recommences (making a circuit, returning to the same point in time) with the planting of the fields after the first rains (sometimes during or shortly after Sukkot itself).
          Tekufah in Psalms 19:7
          The term Tekufah (circuit) appears in Psalm 19 in reference to the sun, but here too it has nothing to do with the equinox. Psalm 19 describes the heavens and sun, which from their unique vantage point are witness to all things in creation, and thus (metaphorically) testify to the incomparable glory of God. Verses 5-7 describes the sun:
          “(5)… He [YHWH] placed a tent among them [the heavens] for the sun. (6) Which is as a bridegroom going out of his chamber, and which rejoices as a strong man running a race. (7) From the end of the heavens is its [the sun’s] going out and its circuit (Tekufato) is to their [the heavens] ends, and none is hidden from its heat”
          Verse 6 describes the sun as a bridegroom that bursts forth out of his chamber and as a hero that runs along a path. Verse 7 then describes the “going out” of the sun at one end of the heavens and the “circuit” (Tekufato) of the sun at the other end. Clearly what is being described is the daily path of the sun which rises at one end of the heaven (its going out) and sets at the other end (its return), “and none is hidden from its heat” during the course of the day. What has confused some readers is that the going out or exiting of the sun refers to sunrise, but this unusual terminology is used throughout the Tanach. For example, we read in Judges 5:31:
          “Thus shall all the enemies of YHWH be destroyed; and all those whom he loves shall be as the going out of the sun (KeTzet HaShemesh) in its might”. (Jud 5,31)
          Those loyal to YHWH shall shine forth with glory as the “going out of the sun”, that is sunrise. It may seem strange that sunrise is referred to as the “going out” of the sun. After all, in Exodus we saw that the going out of the year was the end of the year, whereas the going out of the sun is the beginning of the day. However, this is consistent with Biblical usage and in fact the common Biblical way of saying sunset is the coming in or entering of the sun. This is related to the ancient Israelite conception of the sun which at night was thought of as metaphorically dwelling in a celestial chamber (Ps 19:5). At dawn the sun goes out of this metaphorical chamber and the earth is lit while at night the sun comes into the metaphorical chamber and it is dark. This is also the thought behind the comparison of sunrise to a bridegroom coming forth from his chamber. Ps 19:7 refers to the going out of the sun (sunrise) at one end of heaven and its circuit (return to the same place, to its nightly chamber) at the other end, that is sunset (for a similar thought see Ecc 1:5). We see that here too Tekufah (circuit) has nothing to do with the equinox.
          Tekufah in 2Chronicles 24:23
          As seen above the “Tekufah (circuit) of the year” in Exodus referred to events in the autumn (the time of the ingathering). The same expression (circuit of the year) is also used to refer to events which take place in late spring as we see in 2Chr 24:23:
          “And it was at the circuit (Tekufah) of the year that the army of Aram went up and they came to Judah and Jerusalem…”
          In this instance the “Circuit (Tekufah) of the year” comes in place of the common expression “Return (Teshuvah) of the year” which appears several times in the Tanach as “the time when kings go out [to war]” as in:
          “And it was at the return (Teshuvah) of the year, and Ben-Haddad counted Aram and went up to Afek to war with Israel.” (1Ki 20:26).
          “And it was at the return (Teshuvah) of the year, at the time the kings go out [to war] and David sent Yoav… and they smote the Amonites and besieged Rabbah…” (2Sam 11:1)
          The time that the kings went out to war was the late spring before the oppresive heat of summer and after the winter rains which made the mud roads in the Land of Israel impassable. We see here that Tekufah (circuit) of the year is used interchangeably with the more common Teshuvah (return) of the year. Whenever this annual set time for kings to go out to war comes around it is a “circuit of the year”, returning to the same point in time as last year.
          Tekufah in 1Samuel 1:20
          The term Tekufah (circuit) also appears in 1Sam 1:20 which says:
          “And it was at the circuits (Tekufot) of the days, and Hannah conceived and bore a son…”
          Here the “circuits” of the days refers to “the same time the following year” [or possibly to the completion of the term of pregnancy?]. It is worth noting that Tekufah is plural in 1Sam 1:20 as tekufot “circuitS”. If we apply the anachronistic meaning of Tekufah as equinox then we get the absurd translation: “And it was at the equinoxes of the days, and Hanah concieved and bore a son…” This emphasizes how important it is to understand Scripture in its historical and linguistic context.
          None of the four appearances of Tekufah in the Hebrew Scripture have anything to do with the equinox. Instead, this term is used in Biblical Hebrew in its primary sense of a “circuit”, that is a return to the same point in space or time. Only in Post-Biblical Hebrew did Tekufah come to mean “equinox” and to read this meaning into the Tanach creates an anachronism.

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          • Stan pethel

            Thank you! Great information..Ok 1 more question to tie up my end.. where in the Torah was it commanded to use the barley to determine the Passover start time? I don’t see the reference to it at all beyond the Torah either. I do see references to “in the month of” but not a reference that the barley is the event used to determine the time is close, in fact, the earths producing times change every year, and for that matter, Moses didn’t use barley for the first Passover, so why is this tradition accepted, but using Sun, moon and stars or (heavens/Gods clock) Not? I also have rabbinical references from 20CE that explains how they used the stars and Sun and moon and never mentioned barley at all.. Quote….
            “”And besides the stars above mentioned” {Philo was describing Ursa Major} “the band of the Pleiades is also made up of seven stars, the rising and occultation of which are the causes of great benefits to all men. For when they set, the furrows are ploughed up for the purpose of sowing; and when they are about to rise, they bring glad tidings of harvest; and after they have arisen, they awaken the rejoicing husbandman to the collection of their necessary food. And they with joy store up their food for their daily use.”
            Thus the ancients were able to determine not only the new year by the rising and setting of key stars, but also the precise date of Pesach. Doing so they were able to place Pesach precisely in the middle of the month of Aviv (Nisan), and it could be observed at its right time.

        • Joseph F. Dumond

          As to the following that you raised.
          For example, this year Trumpets was celebrated September 10-11, but it’s not even fall season yet. Most who understood the correct calculation is going with October 10-11 because it’s actually in season.
          The bible only mentions two seasons. Go to the Hebrew not the KJV. There is is either winter or summer. Never does it say spring or fall. You say Trumpets this Sept was not in the fall. Anyone who understands the bible knows that with the 1st day of the 7th month winter has begun. The equinox has no say in the matter.
          You also say that most who understand the correct calculation……Those claiming this have no understanding of the methodology used to determine the seasons. The sun causes the barley to ripen to a stage it can be harvested. If is past the dough stage it can then be roasted to remove the rest of the water in it. So no this years barley was not a month too early. Had you of waited another month as you state then half the fields would have reseeded.
          You need enough Barley to make a wave offering not a whole field.

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