| Israel's Liturgical and Civil Calendar Year | ||||
| Month | Liturgical year order | Civil year order | Modern equivalent | Feast days & agricultural season (+ = God ordained feast; * = national feasts) |
| Abib (Nisan) | 1 | 7 | March/April |
+Passover 14th, +Unleavened Bread 15-21st (sacred assembly on 15th and 21st), +Firstfruits on Sunday of Unleavened Bread holy week. Spring equinox 15th. The "Latter rains"& flood season, beginning of barley and flax harvest |
| Ziv (Iyyar) | 2 | 8 | April/May | Dry season, apricots ripen |
| Sivan | 3 | 9 | May/June | +Weeks (Pentecost) 7 weeks or 50 days from Firstfruits as ancients counted; wheat harvest, dry winds, early fig harvest, grapes ripen |
| Tammuz | 4 | 10 | June/July | Hot, dry season: grape harvest |
| Ab | 5 | 11 | July/Aug. | Hot, olive harvest |
| Elul | 6 | 12 | Aug./Sept. | Dates and summer figs |
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Ethanim (Tishri) |
7 | 1 | Sept./Oct. |
+Trumpets = 1st, +Day of Atonement =10th +Booths (Tabernacles) = 15-21st & 22nd sacred assembly; Fall equinox 15th; "Former (early) rains," plowing & seed time |
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Bul (Heshvan) |
8 | 2 | Oct./Nov. | Rains, winter figs, wheat and barley sown |
| Chislev | 9 | 3 | Nov./Dec. | *Hanukkah (feast of dedication); winter begins |
| Tebeth | 10 | 4 | Dec./Jan. | Coldest month, rains and snow in mountains |
| Sebat | 11 | 5 | Jan./Feb. | Growing warmer, almond trees in bloom |
| Adar | 12 | 6 | Feb./March | *Purim; spring: "Latter rains" begin, citrus fruit harvest |
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+ Seven annual feasts are
God ordained feasts (
Ex 12:1-28; 43-51; 13:1-10;
Lev 23:5-44;
Num 28:16-39); *Hanukkah and Purim are national feasts proclaimed by the people and are not God ordained (1 Mac 4:36-61; 2 Mac 10:1-8; Esther 9:20-32). The Feasts of Unleavened Bread and Tabernacles fell respectively on the spring and fall equinoxes. The ancients counted without the concept of a 0-place value: i.e. Jesus in the tomb 3 days from Friday to Sunday. |
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