The weekly cycle New Moons, Sabbaths, Work Days

2 Kings 4:23

Thus says the Lord God, “The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the Six working days, but on the Sabbath it shall be opened and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.

Why are you going to him (the man of God) today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath.

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, and make the poor of the land fail saying, “When will the New Moon be past that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath that we may trade wheat?

It shall come to pass, that from one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another all flesh shall come to worship before Me, Says the Lord.

Neither the 13th Month nor New Moon is described how to observe it in the Scripture, but you must keep it to obey the commandments that are!

This graph accounts for the New Moon time at the beginning of the Month, the four quarter six working days and the four Sabbaths that were commanded to be observed after the six working days. (This graph does not accurately show the 29.5 days so the New Moon days are not completely accounted for.

In the beginning

Before the first “work week” started all was dark. The earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep.. And God said let there be light. Just as the beginning of every month starts in darkness and not till the evening of the first work day do you see the sliver of the waxing crescent (as seen above). This is when the work week begins.