Question:
If the Sabbath begins at the sun’s setting, should it not close at its rising? I have been taught that the Sabbath begins with the rising of the sun and closes with the setting when Sabbath night begins.
Answer:
The definition of a day that God has given in the first chapter of Genesis, repeated over and over, is that the evening and the morning constitute the day, that is, the dark and the light. “Day” is sometimes used in the sense of the light part, but the whole day is expressed by “the evening and the morning,” the night and day, and the day beginning with the evening. “From even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.” Leviticus 23:32. Our inquirer would have only a part of the day in this way. God’s Sabbath day covers one revolution of the earth.
