Re: First day of the week
From: Arno Schmitt (arno@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Date: Sun Jun 27 1999 - 03:33:33 EDT
Markus Kuhn wrote:
> US calendars seem to start the week predominantly at Sunday, only some
> business organizers and calendars use the ISO week scheme as well. I
> have not yet found any more formal reference for why they start weeks at
> Sunday.
Try this out, esp. verses 5,8,13,19,23,31
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new?id=KjvGene&images=&data=/lv2/english/relig/kjv&tag=public&part=1&division=div
Just in cases you are not familiar with the Hebrew original: what
is here translated as "first day" really is "Sunday", "second day"
is "Monday" and so forth.
Further reason:
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/kjv2www?specfile=/lv6/workspace/kjv/kjv-pub.o2w&act=surround&offset=4715713&tag=Matthew,+ch.+28&query=first+day
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/kjv2www?specfile=/lv6/workspace/kjv/kjv-pub.o2w&act=surround&offset=4562885&tag=Mark,+ch.+16&query=first+day
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/kjv2www?specfile=/lv6/workspace/kjv/kjv-pub.o2w&act=surround&offset=4443239&tag=Luke,+ch.+24&query=first+day
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/kjv2www?specfile=/lv6/workspace/kjv/kjv-pub.o2w&act=surround&offset=3788237&tag=John,+ch.+20&query=first+day
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