In the bible it says the next day starts in the morning. Why is it that we start the next day in the middle of the night? 12:00 am is too dark to be the morning.

The Bible teaches that the day starts in the morning with sunrise, also called "dawn," or on the "morrow." In every instance in the Bible the evening is referred to as the end of the day. That is the way Israel originally counted time. The current method the Jew's use to count time came much later. The Bible defines the light as "day" and darkness as night, and "God divided the dark from the light and called the light day." Gen 1. It makes no sense to see the sun go down and say a new day is beginning. In Gen 1 where it says evening and morning, day one, is simply a way of counting. When God said let there be light, that was the beginning of day one. Then at the end of the day, in the evening the narrator says evening and morning, one day was just completed, so really it was a perspective of looking back from the evening to morning saying day one, because day one couldn't be completed until the evening sunset. It certainly can not be referring to the evening at the end of the first day and morning of the next day as being "day one." When you put it in those terms it really seems so simple and one would have to wonder why people have been so easily duped, or why haven't they just counted the sequence of events to see how it works out? As far as a 24 hour day, the Bible defines the light as day, so if you want to call a 24 hour period a day, where do you start it? You would start it when the day begins, in the morning at sunrise. There is much evidence of this throughout the Bible. I would be glad to share this evidence. As far as the night, it is the period between two days. It separates one day from another. When one day ends, the night begins, and when the night ends as a result of the day approaching, that's when the new Biblical "day" begins. The night is a necessary part of the 24 hour cycle that we refer to as a complete day, or a 24 hour day. But Genesis makes it clear that the day was first and the night followed. There are numerous scriptures to support this concept.

The work day starts in the morning and that is what it is probably referring to. I ask friends "When does your day start?" when I want to know what time they wake up.

Remember, Biblical times were not as 24/7 as we are today.

I don't know which verses you are talking about but actually the Jews told time from sunset to sunset. A new day started when the sun went down. For instance, that is when Passover started and it went until the next days sunset.

Which passage is this (?)
Your activity may start with the first rays of light. The day starts at 12:00 A.M. It's the usual nomenclature.

I couldn't find anything in King James to say the day starts in the morning. Genesis 1 says it starts in the evening.

To use the time in which the Passover starts to determine when the Hebrew day begins is a great distortion. The Passover is merely a re-enactment
of the events of the Exodus where God instructed his people to kill a lamb at even, cook it and eat it, strike the blood on the door posts, and
the angel of death will Passover at midnight.
The Passover did not end at sunset the next day, the Passover ended at midnight of the 14th day of Nisan hence the angel of death Passed Over God's people.
The term even can mean several times. In the new testament, it says that about the ninth hour

Jesus died. This was the time of the evening sacrifice. The ninth hour was around 3 pm. The 6th hour when the darkness covered the land was
around noon. Thus the first hour of the day would be around 5:30 to 6 am.
If a Hebrew day started at sunset then why does the Bible state that the times of the night are determined by the Watches of the night. Did Jesus

die on the cross around 3 oclock after midnight?
This whole tradition of "evening days" is merely a pagan practice that was only observed after the Jews left their captivity in Babylon. Before their captivity they reckoned their days from sunrise to sunrise. In fact there are other records of Jesus time that indicate that many people did observe the sunrise to sunrise days, mostly in the surrounding areas of

Jerusalem probably because they were not taken to Babylon and suffered the indoctrination of many pagan practices.

The other so called smoking gun of evening days is in Lev 23:27

27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of

atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict

your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of

atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same

day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the

same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever

throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

This only applies to the Day of Atonement just as the Passover has its specific observation times. Interestingly enough, the 7th day Sabbath command in Lev 23:3 comes before the Passover information. Why did Moses not stipulate an evening to evening observance of the 7th day Sabbath?

Quite simply, because the norm was to observe the beginning of the day at sunrise. The other commands in Lev. 23 were to merely identify and specify clear exceptions to the reckoning of the days.

Food for thought, if a day begins at night, when does the night begin?

....So the evening (begins at 12 noon when the sun evens in the sky) and the morning (ends at 12 noon when the evening begins)were the first day.

That is how the account of God's six day construction project was recorded. Apparently God slept in and went to work at noon.

One of the many mysteries of how the thinking of our Creator God, VS the lack of spiritual insight on the part of mankind.

Yeah, i think that too when i wake up at 5:30 to get ready for work...
it's too dark to be morning :)~

I agree the bible does show that the day begins at dawn (break of day, or morning). This site has some verses posted on it... http://candf4yhwh.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-does-day-start-evening-or-morning.html

Why then do we start the day in the middle of the night? Confusing isn't it, and doubtful that it came from the Father of Lights. We do however, currently live in a day and age when man has reinvented the food that the Father made, removing seeds and nutrition, (Gen 1:11). We burn fuels to create an artificial power and light. And also live in an age where man has even attempted to change laws and time.

If we were not a rebellious people we would not be so discontent with what the Father in Heaven has given us.

Isa 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

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Interesting question. Galeanda said correctly that the Hebrew day started at sundown. While we don't know just how time works for the Creator, He explained His creative days as consisting of evening and morning; this may have been for our benefit. Scripture seems to indicate that there are no periods of darkness in heaven.

Jehovah set the sun, moon and starsin such a way that they could serve as timepieces for us. He also gave man the ability to construct calendars and apparently gave an example of such.

There is no law saying that we need to follow the same clock and calendar we received from the beginning. The Hebrews had a sacred calendar and a secular one, one starting the year in spring and the other in fall. Today's western calendar starts in winter. Other cultures use different systems and all seem to work okay.

We start our day technically when most people are asleep and our year when most people (in the north, at least) are least active. Still, we usually start our day, practically, at about sunrise, when we have natural light, and many seasonal jobs in spring when the weather moderates.

The point is that many systems can work and there is often no good or 'right' reason for using one or another.

You're right that the hours right after midnight truly aren't morning, but a.m. (ante meridiem), the hours beore the sun reaches meridian or high point.

Strictly, 12:00 can be neither a.m. or p.m. (postem meridiem or after noon). Midnight is, clearly enough, the middle of the night. NOON (NOt ONe or the other)is also called midday, halfway between some ideal sunrise and sunset.

I sometimes wonder if, before the great Deluge, the days were more consistently divided between day and night than they are now. Put another way, if sunrise and sunset came more nearly at the same time each day than they do now, especially farther from the equator.

Does anyone have observations on the subject?