i do not count "days" as most people do. The reason for not doing so is that i Live by a different orientation regarding the ~ 24 time period. Most people think of a "day" as beginning with dawn or, in our current Western, American culture with midnight (12:00 AM). However, i count the ~ 24 time period progression on my calendar the way that YHWH (Blessed be His Holy Name) counts it: by periods of time that begin with the evening (the appearance of stars in the heavens) and run through the following day until the next evening. In other words, an evening and a morning - just as described in the book of Genesis. Therefore, i find the word "day" not really a good term to use, since most people are conditioned to think of a "day" as the morning followed by the night. Therefore, i use the Hebrew word "yom" (literally: a period of time) instead of "day." This subtle change in terminology helps prevent me from agreeing with the world in the orientation of time & space and reminds me that Abba begins with the evening (and night) and then includes the morning (and day).
Also, the nomenclature is different on my lunar-based calendar. The names of my yoms and my months come from Hebrew words and not from the Greco-Roman pantheons (as the current "days" derive) and the Babylonian culture (as the current months derive). Regarding the yoms, the first half has to do with the meaning of Scriptural numerology for that yom's number, and the second half ends in "em" (reminding me that i count from evening ("e") to morning ("m") and not the other way around. Regarding the months, the first half is based on the names of the Twelve apostles in the order in which they chronologically began to follow Y'shua Christos (my Hebrew/Greek way of saying "Jesus [the] Christ"), and the second half is based on the birth order of the twelve tribes of Israel.
"Ünem" begins on what most people would call "Monday" evening and finishes on what most people would call "Tuesday" afternoon, and "Ün" is short for "unity." As the third yom of the week of seven yoms, the number "3" in scriptural numerology has to do with the "divine," and a key aspect of divinity is the unity of YHWH (Blessed be His Holy Name). Anreu is the first month (corresponding to the Jewish "Nisan" or "Nissan," and Anreu derives from Andrew-Reuben. The current year (7703) comes from the symbolic calculation of 5771 (the Jewish Year #) + 165 (a reference to the "missing years" in the Hebrew calendar) + 1000 (symbolizing both the billions of years involved in the creation of the universe before the Genesis account picks up the earth-creation narrative as well as also the billions of years encompassed in at least some of the "yoms" (or "periods of time") in the actual Genesis creation narrative) + 767 (symbolizing the unknown amount of time Adam & Eve spent in the garden before missing the mark and going their own way (or "sinning") apart from the LORD Most High). When You add 5771+165+1000+767, You get 7703. The designation "YY" stands for "YHWH Year" - Blessed be His Holy Name. i believe the universe (and, therefore, the earth) are billions of years old and that people are much older than 7000+ years, but i also believe that has absolutely no effect on the veracity, validity, or legitimacy of the Scriptural text (but that's for another time & place). Given all of this, i refer to years as YY, because YHWH (Blessed be His Holy Name) is behind all of it and the only "One" Who knows the Truth about the age of the universe, the earth, or anything involving creation.
In conclusion, the "date" of toyom (or "today," to most people) for this particular post might be more easily read as "Ünem, Anreu 1st, 7703 YY."
Genesis 1:1 Now In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3 ThenGod said, "Let there be light "; and there was light. 4 God saw that thelight was good ; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there wasevening and there was morning, one day. 6 Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the watersfrom the waters." 7 God made the expanse, and separated the waterswhich were below the expanse from the waters which were above theexpanse ; and it was so. 8 God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. 9 Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and letthe dry land appear "; and it was so. 10 God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas ; and God saw that it wasgood. 11 Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation : plantsyielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kindwith seed in them"; and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation,plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind ; and God saw that it was good. 13 There wasevening and there was morning, a third day. 14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days andyears ; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens togive light on the earth "; and it was so. 16 God made the two greatlights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to governthe night ; He made the stars also. 17 God placed them in the expanseof the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness ; and God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourthday. 20 Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of livingcreatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of theheavens." 21 God created the great sea monsters and every livingcreature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, andevery winged bird after its kind ; and God saw that it was good. 22 Godblessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in theseas, and let birds multiply on the earth." 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 24 Then God said, "Let the earth bringforth living creatures after their kind : cattle and creeping things andbeasts of the earth after their kind "; and it was so. 25 God made thebeasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, andeverything that creeps on the ground after its kind ; and God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness ; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 God createdman in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male andfemale He created them. 28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every livingthing that moves on the earth." 29 Then God said, "Behold, I have givenyou every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, andevery tree which has fruit yielding seed ; it shall be food for you; 30 andto every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every greenplant for food "; and it was so. 31 God saw all that He had made, andbehold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
The Creation of Man and Woman
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, andHe rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it Herested from all His work which God had created and made. 4 This is theaccount of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in theday that the LORD God made earth and heaven. 5 Now no shrub of thefield was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no manto cultivate the ground. 6 But a mist used to rise from the earth andwater the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the LORD God formedman of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath oflife ; and man became a living being. 8 The LORD God planted agarden toward the east, in Eden land of Havilah Assyria . And the fourth river is the Euphrates . 15 Then the LORD God took theman and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. 16The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of thegarden you may eat freely ; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge ofgood and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you willsurely die." 18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone ; I will make him a helper suitable for him." 19 Out of theground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and toevery beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helpersuitable for him. 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept ; then He took one of his ribs and closed up theflesh at that place. 22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the ribwhich He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 Theman said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh ; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.
The Fall of Man
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed , has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden '?" 2 The woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat ; 3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.' " 4 The serpent said to the woman, "You surely will not die ! 5 "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate ; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. 8 They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" 10 He said, "I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked ; so I hid myself." 11 And He said, "Who told you that you were naked ? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat ?" 12 The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate." 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done ?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." 14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field ; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life ; 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed ; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel." 16 To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children ; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you." 17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. 18 "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field ; 19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken ; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return." 20 Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. 21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. 22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil ; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever "- 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He
Cain and Abel
Genesis 4:1 Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD." 2 Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground. 4 Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering ; 5 but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell. 6 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry ? And why has your countenance fallen ? 7 "If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door ; and its desire is for you, but you must master it." 8 Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. 9 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother ?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper ?" 10 He said, "What have you done ? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground. 11 "Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 "When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth." 13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is too great to bear ! 14 "Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground ; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." 15 So the LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him. 16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and settled in the x
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