Peter, the point is that, by Jewish tradition, once the sun goes down on what we call Friday evening, it’s actually the day we call Saturday. It’s us gentiles that insist upon a breakover at the middle of the night.
Depends on whether you’re using the secular or the sacred reckoning. In the liturgical calandar of the Anglican tradition, days begin at sun-down. That’s why at Christmas the Christmas services begin in the evening of December 24 - because by the liturgical calendar, it’s Christmas, even though by the secular calandar, it’s still Christmas Eve.
Between the fall of the Roman Empire and about the 15th century (when town clocks, with chimes, became fairly common), most of Europe considered sundown to be the beginning of the 24-hour day.
Really, none of the English language existed back then. You want the contestant should have responded in Ancient Hebrew?
But now you’ve got me wondering: Did Hebrew have a name for each of the seven days of the week? And if so, did the Sabbath day have any other name besides just “the Sabbath”?
I know–I was very surprised to see it but then the questions turned out to be relatively answerable. Although, I have heard the passage a few times but didn’t remember it too well.
Some of the others were “What did the manna taste like” “In what book of the Bible was manna first mentioned”
And then one to which the answer was Revelation, and the one guy got dinged for answering “What is Revelations?”
The translations mention that manna (“man-hu”) could be taken to mean “What is it?” or whatchamacallit. Or, probably more correctly, an allotment (“manan”).