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 Such cases as  (which is determined by a following determinate genitive) are explained from ;  perhaps from ; in  probably the light of all the seven days of the week is meant; on the other hand, in  and 25:38 the article is, with Wellhausen, to be omitted.

3. Certain specifications of measure, weight, or time, are commonly omitted after numerals, e.g.  (shekels) of silver; so also before , , , cf. . Moreover,  (ephahs) of barley;   (sc. loaves, see verse 3) of bread, cf. 17:17 ;, where before a measure, or perhaps some term like cakes, is to be supplied.—The number of cubits is stated in the Priestly Code (, &c.) and in 1 K 6 and 7 (otherwise only in , 21, 47:3. , ,  f.) by the addition of  prop. by the cubit. Also in the Samaritan and LXX read  after, and in 27:15  after.

4. The ordinals above 10 have no special forms, but are expressed by the corresponding cardinals, which may then stand either before or after the object numbered, e.g. ;  ; cf. ,, and, with repetition of in a compound number, ; such a cardinal occurs without  (and therefore in the accus. temporis, according to ) in  (the Samaritan, however, has ); with the article (but without a numbered object, see under k),. —On the position of the numeral as a genitive following its noun, cf. e.g., and with a determinate numeral, , ,. In this case, however, is very frequently repeated, e.g., ; after a determinate numeral,.

Rem. In numbering days of the month and years, the cardinals are very frequently used instead of the ordinals even for the numbers from 1 to 10, e.g. ; , &c., cf. . The months themselves are always numbered by the ordinals (,, &c., up to ), but not the days of the month, e.g. , &c.,  ;  , &c.,  ,   (always, however, ). On the