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SOME FACTS ABOUT THE WEEK. It does not matter where you go in the world. Everyone knows of the seven day week - Sunday Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It is common to all peoples both developed nations and those that are developing, although the names are those of local languages. Sunday by dictionary definition is the day of the sun, the name of the first day of the week. Saturday is referred to as the seventh day of the week. |
In Germany today the first day of the week, Sunday, is Sontag, and Wednesday is called Mittwoch or midweek. This recognises that there are 3 days before Wednesday, and 3 days after to make up the complete week, therefore the week begins on Sunday and ends on Saturday, the Sabbath.
The Rev. William M. Jones, an antiquarian of London, made extensive research of this fact and developed a chart which when completed was 7 foot 2 inches long with many languages and dialects from around the world, showing how the week is named, and the fact that all people recognise a seven day week. In some African languages e.g. Wandala of Central Africa the names of the week translate into The One, The Two, The Three, etc, and the seventh day, which we would know as Saturday is called Sibda or Sabbath. |
| Bagrimma and Maba also of Central Africa use the same numbering system for the days of the week and call the seventh day Sibbedi and Sab respectively. Norman French called the seventh day Sabbedi. Today if you look at some Seiko watches the date box gives the seventh day of the week in Spanish as Sabado. In Italian it is Sabbato, in Arabic, Assabt. The Jews traditionally call their days the first of the Sabbath, the second of the Sabbath, the third of the Sabbath, etc. |
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| The sixth day is called the preparation day and the seventh day is the Sabbath. This pattern of the week is world wide. We are designed to have six working days followed by the Sabbath or the rest day. |
| In the country of Ghana, West Africa, many native tribes refer to Saturday as Memeneda. Literally the name means 'the day of the I AM'. It is also referred to as Memeneda Dapaa 'the good or precious day' God is referred to as Onyame Kwame, the God whose day is Saturday. On Memeneda personal and mundane activities are discouraged, e.g. funerals, and markets and war cannot be declared or waged on that day. It was Prince Henry the Navigator, the Portuguese explorer, that brought priests |
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