Do You Know the Time?

WHEN you want to know the time, what do you do?  You likely glance at your watch or a clock.  If  friend asked you for the time, how would you reply?  There are different ways of telling time.  How so?

Well, lets just say that it is one hour and 30 minutes after noon.  You might reply that it is 1:30.  Depending on where you live and what is customary.  You might express the time as 13:30.  That way of telling time is based on the system of a 24-hour clock.  There are even places where that same time could be expressed as "half two," meaning 30 minutes before two.

As a reader of the Bible, you might wonder how people in the Bible period told time.  There was not just one.  The Hebrew portion of the Bible makes reference to "morning," "noon," "midday," and "evening."  (Genesis 8:11; 19:27; 43:16; Deuteronomy 28:29; 1 Kings 198:26)  On occasion, however, more exact timing is used.  

Next time: Conclusion of Do You Know the Time? 

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