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(1) that the lunar cycle of nineteen years
was used by the Jews in the fifth century
B.C. [the present reformed Jewish calen-
dar dating from the fourth century A.D.],
a date a ”little more than a century after
the grandfathers and great-grandfathers of
those whose business is recorded had fled
into Egypt with Jeremiah” (Sayce); and (2)
that the order of intercalation at that time
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