Exodus Exodus 22:18-23:13
The heart of the Book of the Covenant is one sentence said twice: 'for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.' It brackets the whole unit and states the law's spine — Israel, the redeemed oppressed, is forbidden to become the oppressor. The verb of Pharaoh's program against Israel is the very verb God forbids Israel to use against the widow and orphan, and the release it sets in motion reaches, through Jubilee and prophecy, to the year of the Lord's favor that Jesus proclaims at Nazareth.
Genesis 2:1–3
Day 7 breaks the pattern: no 'let there be,' no 'and it was so,' no evening and morning. Four unprecedented verbs — finished, ceased, blessed, sanctified — describe a day that is the first holy thing in the Bible. The rest is still open.
Genesis · Exodus · Leviticus · Daniel · Revelation Gen 1:14; Exo 12:2; Lev 25:8; Dan 7:25; Rev 12:14
The Bible's standard year tracks the sun by statute and the moon by month. The popular 360-day prophetic year is not a calendar Scripture gives — it is a stylized apocalyptic equation, and the year-words are absent from every place it appears.