".....the day-year principle.
The most oft-cited biblical references to it are the following: “According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection” ’ ” (Num. 14:34)
and “ ‘When you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year’” (Ezek. 4:6).
To begin, the Old Testament shows a clear link between the terms days and years.
In various places, though, the texts may be translated year or years or yearly—because that is the obvious meaning—the Hebrew word is, literally, days.
The Passover was observed “from days to days” (the literal Hebrew), though it is translated as “ ‘from year to year’ ” (Exod. 13:10) because that is what the text means.
Hannah took to Samuel “year by year” (literally “from days to days”) the clothing that she had made for him (1 Sam. 2:19).
A “yearly” sacrifice in 1 Samuel 20:6 is, in the original Hebrew, the “sacrifice of the days.”
Scripture declares that David and his men dwelt in the land of the Philistines “days and four months” (1 Sam. 27:7, Young’s Literal Translation). The obvious meaning is a period of “a year and four months,” hence the KJV translation—“a full year and four months.”
As far back as Genesis 5, the day-year link appears: “X lived so many years and begat Y. And X lived so many years after he begat Y and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of X were so many years, and he died.”
In what we might consider Scripture’s oldest “time” prophecy, we read, “ ‘My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh, yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years’ ” (Gen. 6:3; emphasis added). Thus, in Genesis 6 we find a “prophecy” that directly associates days and years."
CliffordGoldstein/Ministry 4/2018
The most oft-cited biblical references to it are the following: “According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection” ’ ” (Num. 14:34)
and “ ‘When you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year’” (Ezek. 4:6).
To begin, the Old Testament shows a clear link between the terms days and years.
In various places, though, the texts may be translated year or years or yearly—because that is the obvious meaning—the Hebrew word is, literally, days.
The Passover was observed “from days to days” (the literal Hebrew), though it is translated as “ ‘from year to year’ ” (Exod. 13:10) because that is what the text means.
Hannah took to Samuel “year by year” (literally “from days to days”) the clothing that she had made for him (1 Sam. 2:19).
A “yearly” sacrifice in 1 Samuel 20:6 is, in the original Hebrew, the “sacrifice of the days.”
Scripture declares that David and his men dwelt in the land of the Philistines “days and four months” (1 Sam. 27:7, Young’s Literal Translation). The obvious meaning is a period of “a year and four months,” hence the KJV translation—“a full year and four months.”
As far back as Genesis 5, the day-year link appears: “X lived so many years and begat Y. And X lived so many years after he begat Y and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of X were so many years, and he died.”
In what we might consider Scripture’s oldest “time” prophecy, we read, “ ‘My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh, yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years’ ” (Gen. 6:3; emphasis added). Thus, in Genesis 6 we find a “prophecy” that directly associates days and years."
CliffordGoldstein/Ministry 4/2018
