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WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?: M. M. NINAN<br />
David divided the levites into 24 divisions to serve at the temple. They<br />
served in order and in cycles,<br />
I Chronicles 24:1- tells us that the family of Abhijah <strong>was</strong> allotted the<br />
eighth course<br />
3. There were 24 courses in all.<br />
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times a year all your men must appear<br />
before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Feast of<br />
Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles<br />
Talmud also confirms this.<br />
" Three times in the year all the twenty-four orders of priests were alike<br />
entitled to share the pieces of offerings of the festival, and in the<br />
shewbread; and on the Feast of Pentecost the distributors say to each<br />
priest: "Here is leavened bread for thee, and here is unleavened bread<br />
for thee." The order of priests whose regular time of service occurs in<br />
the festivals offer the continual daily offerings, vows, and voluntary<br />
offerings, and all congregational offerings, and every sacrifice." (Tract<br />
Succah (Booths), Bablyonian Talmud, Book 4: Tracts Pesachim,<br />
Yomah and Hagiga, tr. by Michael L. Rodkinson, [1918], at sacredtexts.com,<br />
Chapter V, Volume VII.)<br />
Thus three times a year during the festival all the adult were to<br />
assemble in Jerusalem before either temple, all these 24 priestly<br />
families were to work together<br />
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