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Seven Pentecontad Cycles = 362.24999 days (average)
49 Lunar Quarter-Phases = 361.74985
Net Difference Between The Rates = 0.50014 days

Essentially, a run of seven cycles of seven-squared days (plus the extraneous days) ex-
ceeds the rate of seven-squared lunar phases by the precise amount of ½ day (or by 0.5001 day).

This very precise ½ day overlap is seemingly a deliberately crafted feature of the annual
cycle!

The overlap interface could perhaps be interpreted that once each annual cycle the line-up
'Sabbatwn' plus 'a solar Sabbath' -- which normally represents an extended count of 1 ½ days-be
counted as only 1 day.

Perceptually, at one time in each annual circuit, the 'Sabbatwn' (a ½ stage occurring amid
the lunar cycle) would come together with, or overlap on top of, a 'jubilee day' (a solar Sabbath
day).

This special 1 day overlap in a cycle of seven-weeks (only once per year) is seemingly
mentioned in Jubilees, 6:16-22: "…they should celebrate the festival of weeks during this renewal
-- once a year-to renew the covenant each and every year…it is the 'festival of weeks' and it is 'the
festival of firstfruits'. This festival is twofold and of two kinds…".

Because the 'Sabbatwn' corresponds to either the extended evening of the whole Moon (a
½ day interval), or to an extended interval for the dark Moon (also a ½ day interval), then the ulti-
mate annual overlap of the 'Sabbatwn' interval with a solar Sabbath day must have been an impor-
tant calendar event in the religion of the ancient Middle East. Indeed, the intersection of "Dawn"
and "Dusk" was once specially celebrated. History graphically shows just how this important ep-
och was counted and observed (as a feature of the jubilee cycle):

"… the jubilee year followed seven sabbatical cycles. … A Ugaritic liturgical text spe-
cially designed for this phenomenon aims at terminating a sabbatical cycle of privation and usher-
ing in one of fertility by celebrating the birth and triumphal entrance of… Shahar ("Dawn") and
Shalim ("Dusk"), whose advent brings an abundance of food and wine.(britannica.com: Middle
Eastern religion).

Thus, this peculiar annual overlap is indicated to have been carefully counted by ancient
priests (as part of the harvest circuit).

On only one remarkable annual day (probably on a lunar 'Sabbatwn' closest to the vernal or
autumnal equinox) the conjunction of a solar Sabbath day occurred (the advent of both "Dawn" and
"Dusk" together). Incredibly, this significant epoch (a probable 'Sabbatwn' overlap) can actually
be astronomically identified as a feature of the annual cycle (the time when a stage of the Moon cy-
cle overlaps with one of the seven divisions of the Sun circle).

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