[soc.religion.christian] Three days!

mgo@inel.gov (Marcos Ortiz) (12/14/90)

	When I count I also get two.  However, I have been
	told that it says "on the third day" and not in 72 hours.

	Marcos

[Right.  It's a question of what you mean by "in N days".  We're used
to units conversions, like 12 inch = 1 ft, 3 ft = yd, etc., so we tend
to go 3 days = 72 hours.  Ancients weren't using day as a unit of
measure equal to 24 hours.  They just counted days.  Friday, Saturday,
Sunday.  That's three days.  At least that's the impression I've
gotten from my reading.  --clh]