y not be held on a Wednesday, it is in such case to be
postponed to Thursday. If, for a year immediately following an embolismic
year, the computed new moon is on Monday, as late as 15 hours 30 min. 52
sec., the new year is to be fixed on Tuesday.

After the dates of commencement of the successive Hebrew years are finally
adjusted, conformably with the foregoing directions, an estimation of the
consecutive intervals, by taking the differences, will show the duration
and character of the years that respectively intervene. According to the
number of days thus found to be comprised in the different years, the days
of the several months are distributed as in Table VI.

The signs + and - are respectively annexed to Hesvan and Kislev to indicate
that the former of these months may sometimes require to have one day more,
and the latter sometimes one day less, than the number of days shown in the
table--the result, in every case, being at once determined by the total
number of days that the year may happen to contain. An ordinary year may
comprise 353, 354 or 355 days; and an embolismic year 383, 384 or 385 days.
In these cases respectively the year is said to be imperfect, common or
perfect. The intercalary month, Veadar, is introduced in embolismic years
in order that Passover, the 15th day of Nisan, may be kept at its proper
season, which is the full moon of the vernal equinox, or that which takes
place after the sun has entered the sign Aries. It always precedes the
following new year by 163 days, or 23 weeks and 2 days; and Pentecost
always precedes the new year by 113 days, or 16 weeks and 1 day.

TABLE VI.--_Hebrew Months._

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| |Ordinary |Embolismic|
|Hebrew Month.| Year. | Year. |
|-------------|---------|----------|
|Tisri | 30 | 30 |
|Hesvan | 29 + | 29 + |
|Kislev | 30 - | 30 - |
|Tebet | 29 | 29 |
|Sebat | 30 | 30 |
|Adar | 29 | 30 |
|(Veadar) | (...) | (29) |
|Nisan | 30 | 30 |
|Yiar | 29 | 29 |
|Sivan | 30 | 30 |
|Tamuz | 29 | 29 |
|Ab | 30 | 30 |
|Elul | 29 | 29 |
|----------------------------------|
|Total | 354 | 384 |
|----------------------------------|

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