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Feast of the Unleavened Bread), then Easter Day should be celebrated on the
first Sunday either on or after the full moon that follows the spring equinox
in the northern hemisphere. This Roman calculation of Easter Day was imposed on
the Church of England at the Synod of Whitby in AD 664.
732
48 Propp, p. 399.
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49 Num. 29: 12–13.
734
50 Num. 29: 17.
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51 Num. 29: 20.
736
52 Num. 20: 32.
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53 Oesterley and Robinson, pp. 128—9. For a review of the lunar cult among the
Semitic peoples of the Near East see Nielsen, 1901, pp. 50 ff., and 1927, i, pp.
213-24.
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54 Gunduz, pp. 2, 12, 37, 51, 119, 131
739
55 Ibid., p. 83, 118-19.
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56 Num. 1: 1.
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57 Num. 9: 1.
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58 Num. 10: 12.
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59 Num. 10: 33, 35.
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