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They come into the Wilderness of
(Sinai Exod. 19. v. I.

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when they

S. 6. The Words in Exodus Cap. 12. v. 6. And the of the time whole Affembly of the Congregation of Ifrael fhall kill it killed the betwixt the two Evenings, have met with various In- Lamb for terpetations. Aben Ezra understands by it, the In- the Paloterval betwixt Sun-fet and the beginning of the Night,ver.

and

and Rabbi David Kimchi makes the Suns declining to the Weft, or the Afternoon to be the one Evening, and its fetting the other. But fince, according to fofephus 1.7.c. 17. de Bel Fudaic. at the Feaft of one Paffover there were flain 255600 Lambs, we also agree with the fame Author, who afferts that the Jews afed to begin at nine a Clock (about three in the Afternoon with us) to kill thefe Beafts, and leave off again at eleven (about five with us.)

CHAP. X.

Of the two Epocha's of the Divifion of the Land of Canaan among the Tribes of Ifrael, and of their firft beginning to cultivate the Ground

RULES.

1. The first began from the time that the Ifraelites paffed the River of Jordan, and made themselves Masters of the Land of Canaan, Namb. 33. v. 51. feq.

2. At that time all the Tribes, excepting that of Levi, bad their particular Inheritance affigned them, Numb 34. v. 1. feq.

3. The year of this Diftribution was the 45th after the fecond, from the time of their going out of Egypt, a is evident from the Words of Caleb, Jof. 14 7. 10. Forty years was I when Mofes the Servant of the Lord fent me from KadeshBarnea to elpy out the Land; and I brought him Word again as it was in mine Heart. And now behold the Lord hath kept me alive as he faid, thefe 45 years, ever fince the Lord fpake this Word unto Mofes, while the Children of Ifrael wandered in the Wilderness; and now I am this day eighty five years old, Vid. Numb. x. and 13.

4. The year of the Diftribution of the Land was
the laft Sabbatick year in the Proleptick Cycle,
and the following was the first in the Epocha of
Agriculture or the Legal Sabbatick Cycle, accord-
ing to God's Inftitution, Lev. 25. v. 2.
When
vou come into the Land which I give you, then
fhall the Land keep a Sabbath (Reft) unto the
Lord; Six years thou shalt fow thy Field,
and fix years thou shalt prune thy Vine-yard,
and gather in the Fruit thereof: But in the
feventh year fhall be a Sabbath of Reft unto
the Land, a Sabbath for the Lord; thou shalt
neither fow thy Field, nor prune thy Vine-
yard, vid. Ex. 23.v. 10. 11. and Deut. 15. v.
1, &c. 31. v. 9.
5. From thefe Characters we conclude, that the year
of the Divifion of the Land was coincident for the
greatest part of it with the 3263 year of the Julian
Period,Cycl. . 15. D. 14. And that the first year,
of cultivating the Ground began in the Month
Tifti, or firft Autumnal Month of the fame year
of the Julian Period.

6. If therefore 3261 years and 9 Months be fub- Any year tracted from any certain year of the Julian Pe- given of the riod, the Refidue fhews the year fince the begin- Julian Pening of the Epocha of the Divifion of the Landriod to investigate of Canaan; and if 3262 years and 9 Months the year be fubtracted from the fame year of the Julian fince the Period, the Refidue fhews, that fince the begin- beginning ning of the Epocha of the cultivating of the of this Epocha. Land. And if these several 3261 and 3262 years' be added to the years of the aforenamed Epocha's the Product will give the year of the Julian Pe- Whether

riod.

§. 1. Dionyfius Petavius l. 9. c. 25. de doct. temp. in

the begin

ning of the Sabbatick year maybe

Oppofition to Scaliger, maintains, that from garbered the Words of Caleb no exact Computation can be from the made as to the year of the cultivating of the Land, it Words of being dubious whether the fame ought to be account-Caleb.

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