וּבְנֵ֣י צִיּ֗וֹן גִּ֤ילוּ וְשִׂמְחוּ֙ בַּיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם כִּֽי־נָתַ֥ן לָכֶ֛ם אֶת־הַמּוֹרֶ֖ה לִצְדָקָ֑ה וַיּ֣וֹרֶד לָכֶ֗ם גֶּ֛שֶׁם מוֹרֶ֥ה וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁ בָּרִאשֽׁוֹן׃
錫安的子民哪，你們要因永恆者你們的上帝歡欣喜樂，因為祂賜給你們教導者，引導你們行公義；祂又為你們降下雨水，就是秋雨和春雨，在正月降下。
The Sabbath Epistle
Know that the Chaldeans do not have a second Adar, because their months are not lunar months.108 See Evans (p. 187) where he describes the Babylonian calendar as also a lunisolar calendar with a second Adar. Also see Otto Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity, p. 102. Instead they divide the solar year into twelve parts. The meaning of the verse “In the first month, the month of Nisan” (Esther 3:7), is that in that specific year it was so, for in an intercalated year the first month would have been Iyar. Therefore, it is not correct to translate “in the first” (Joel 2:23) as “ in Nisan.” 109 This is how the term is rendered in the Aramaic translation of Jonathan ben Uziel. This was done so that people at that time would understand.