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77:2.11The rec­ords of such long-lived in­di­vid­u­als are also due to the con­fu­sion of months and years as time pe­ri­ods. This may also be ob­served in the Bib­li­cal ge­neal­ogy of Abra­ham and in the early rec­ords of the Chi­nese. The con­fu­sion of the twenty-eight-day month, or sea­son, with the later in­tro­duced year of more than three hun­dred and fifty days is re­spon­si­ble for the tra­di­tions of such long hu­man lives. There are rec­ords of a man who lived over nine hun­dred “years.” This pe­riod rep­re­sents not quite sev­enty years, and such lives were re­garded for ages as very long, “three­score years and ten” as such a life span was later des­ig­nated.

77:2.12The reck­on­ing of time by the twenty-eight-day month per­sisted long af­ter the days of Adam. But when the Egyp­tians un­der­took to re­form the cal­en­dar, about seven thou­sand years ago, they did it with great ac­cu­racy, in­tro­duc­ing the year of 365 days.

57:0.1In pre­sent­ing ex­cerpts from the ar­chives of Je­ru­sem for the rec­ords of Uran­tia re­spect­ing its an­tecedents and early his­tory, we are di­rected to reckon time in terms of cur­rent us­age—the pres­ent leap-year cal­en­dar of 365¼ days to the year. As a rule, no at­tempt will be made to give ex­act years, though they are of rec­ord. We will use the near­est whole num­bers as the bet­ter method of pre­sent­ing these his­toric facts.

126:3.1By the mid­dle of this fif­teenth year—and we are reck­on­ing time in ac­cor­dance with the twen­ti­eth-cen­tury cal­en­dar, not by the Jew­ish year—Je­sus had taken a firm grasp upon the man­age­ment of his fam­ily. Be­fore this year had passed, their sav­ings had about dis­ap­peared, and they were face to face with the ne­ces­sity of dis­pos­ing of one of the Naz­a­reth houses which Joseph and his neigh­bor Ja­cob owned in part­ner­ship.