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> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/khagen/Babylon.html
I expect I am missing something.
The contrary URL adduced by John offers this:
"The seven-day cycle makes its earliest appearance in Babylonian
documents of the 7th century BCE. It is not quite yet the week as we
know it, however. In origin, it seems to have been one fourth of the
approximate time in a month the moon was visible..."
This looks rather more confirmatory than contrary to the innocent eye.
It is likely that the seven-day week as we know it has run uninterrupted
since the time of Moses, and possibly much longer than that.
John, please say what is your basis for this.
Did the Sabbath of Moses always follow the previous Sabbath by 7 days?
At the time of Moses was there an understood fixed exact unvarying 7 day
week as we have today --- sort of?