why are their 7 days in a week? why is it?

Answer 1

The first people to use a seven day week were the Mesopotamians They lived between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers in what is now largely Turkey, Iraq & Iran (their name means "between two rivers".) Theirs was one of the oldest civilisations, stretching from about 4500BC to about 400BC & they had their own religion & literature, so they came up with the concept of the seven day week before the Christian creation story was first told.
They also used a base 60 numeral system which is why we still have 60-minute hours and 24-hour days, as well as the 360 degree circle.

Answer 2

the seven-day week was established as imperial calendar in the late Roman empire and furthered by the Christian church for historical reasons. The British Empire used the seven-day week and spread it worldwide. Today the seven-day week is enforced by global business and media schedules, especially television and banking.

The first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath, Saturday.

Extra-biblical locations sometimes mentioned as the birthplace of the 7-day week include: Babylon, Persia, and several others. The week was known in Rome before the advent of Christianity.

There are practical geometrical theories as well. For example, if you wrap a rubber band around 7 soda cans (or any other convenient circular objects). You get a perfect hexagon with the 7th can in the middle. It is the only stable configuration of wrapping more than 3 circular objects. Four, 5, and 6 objects will slip from one configuration to another. Ancients wrapping tent poles, small logs for firewood, or other ciruclar objects might have come upon this number and attach a mystical significance to it.

One viable theory correlates the seven day week to the seven (astrological) "planets" known to the ancients: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar periods, however. A solar year could be more evenly divided into weeks of 5 days, and the moon phases five-day and six-day weeks make a better short term fit (6 times 5 is 30) to the lunar (synodic) month (of about 29.53 days) than the current week (4 times 7 is 28). The seven-day week may have been chosen because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 = 7.3825).

whew

Answer 3

because the seasons - which were more important to people back when our environment was more difficult - are heavily influenced by the lunar movements. There is around 1 lunar cycle every month (what a coincidence:) and each phase of the moon (there are 4) occur over a 7 day period.

So if you're going to pick a way of measuring time, astral bodies like the sun and the moon and their influence on your (continued) existence and regularity would make them prime candidates. It's not because of Genesis or God. Man decides on how to divide time, God just creates it.

Answer 4

Genesis - creation story - God made the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th.

Has carried down for a long time. The bible is the basis of three huge worldwide religions.

Answer 5

OMG thats like the kind of question i am constantly asking myself except i have no life and think about this stuff when im bored but yea anyways ill be checkin back in to see what pple say!

Answer 6

Fun haters would not allow the 8th day of Funday.

Answer 7

because six is how many days it took God to create the earth, and on the seventh he rested.

Answer 8

because i can't work anymore than 7 day's in a week please don't make it anymore
lol

Answer 9

cos God had seven pairs of underwear

Answer 10

lucky number i suppose. maybe once there were 6. do you think there will ever be 8?