Numbering The Calendar

GENESIS 4-9

I have always wondered were our calendar comes from. I know that Jews believe in another calendar, and so does other cultures and religions. However, I never understood who had the idea of categorizing 7 days in a week. But, in the Genesis I have been familiar to many numbers, such as “forty days and forty nights” or “seven days”. Also, I noticed the importance that is given to the pairs.

One of the first details I noticed while reading the family tree, where the pairs. For example, Adam and Eve, had three children, but only two were alive at the same time. Also, when they talked about the children the people had, they didn’t mention the wife, except in the case of Lamech and his two wifes, and his two children per woman. In addition, “There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female” (Genesis 7.9).

As well, there are others number that I believe have helped formed our modern-day time units. “For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights” (Genesis 7.4), said God to Noah. Here we can see that seven days is used, and now we still use seven days as a week, and our work and break time periods rotate around it. Also, God talked about forty days and forty nights, which I assume that has slowly turned into 30 days and nights, that means a month.

Now I understand were do many of our important numbers come from, and how they have might have changed accordingly to further knowledge, and different cultures.