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The Ancient Egyptians, for instance, divided their months of thirty days into three weeks of ten days each; so did the heads of the short-lived First French Republic in 1793. They called their week a decade, that is, something with ten parts. At one time in Scandinavia a week was a group of five days only. The Jews always had a seven-day week, according to the account at the beginning of the Bible. There you can read about the creation of the world, and how : "By the seventh day God had come to an end of making, and rested..."
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