The Jewish Sabbath Ended at Sunset

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Leviticus 23:32  . . .from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.

Mark 1:21,32  . . . on the Sabbath day . . . At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.

Some of many Scriptures indicating that the Jewish days ended at sunset:

Leviticus 22:6-7 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening. . . . When the sun is down, he shall be clean . . .

Deuteronomy 23:10-11 If there is among you any man who is not clean . . . He shall not come within the camp; but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.

Deuteronomy 16: 6  . . . there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun . . .

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