I called the KH- "the Memorial is tomorrow night, right? (page 3)

TD

Today is Nisan 13th 5771. At sundown this evening the date will change to the 14th of Nisan. Jehovah's Witnesses will celebrate the Memorial this evening.

Tomorrow, it will still be the 14th. Nisan 14th will extend throughout the entire daylight period on Monday clear to sundown. The Torah is emphatic that the next day after Passover is the 15th, not the 14th.

"And they proceeded to pull away from Rameses in the first month on the fifteenth day of the first month. Directly the day after the passover the sons of Israel went out with uplifted hand before the eyes of all the Egyptians." (Numbers 33:3 NWT)

"They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. It was on the morrow of the passover offering that the Israelites started out defiantly, in plain view of all the Egyptians. (Numbers 33:3 Tanakh)

snowbird

I hope this doesn't come off as too pedantic, but it's Nisan, people.

Get the Japanese car maker out of your heads!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan

Thanks.

I plan to do my thing on the 18th.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/208778/1/Homemade-Flat-Bread-Red-Grape-Wine

Syl

moshe

Mr Eggnog, your convoluted explanation seems to have fallen on deaf ears- maybe you need to gussy it up a little more, with some WT antitypes, greater Moses and grand jubilee mumbo jumbo.

snowbird

Convoluted is right on the money.

Ranks right up there with the current "this generation" claptrap.

Syl

jeckle

Way to go wontleave

TD

Syl,

"Nisan" is probably better to avoid confusion, but both "Nisan" and "Nissan" are correct. Many Jewish sources use the latter spelling.

wasblind

Moshe is the biggest nit-pickin' instigator there ever was

and I just love it, git 'em Moshe, git 'er done

thetrueone

WontLeave

Now on the first day of unfermented cakes, when they customarily sacrificed the passover [victim], his disciples said to him: “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the passover? - Mark 14:12

I think we can all agree this is Nisan 14th. This is the day God told Israel to slaughter the passover lamb.

After evening had fallen he came with the twelve. - Mark 14:17

This would be the next Jewish day, because it was now evening; Nisan 15 - Passover. Everybody gets it except the Governing Body.

snowbird

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisan

Thanks, TD.

Now I stand corrected.

"Physician cure yourself ... "

Syl

moshe

Everybody gets it except the Governing Body.

You would think this snafu on memorial dates would be a wake-up call for JWs lurking here, to see that the GB has committed a monumental blunder in picking the wrong day for the Memorial. I can think of more mistakes with dates the WT has done, too.

I called the KH- "the Memorial is tomorrow night, right?

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