3rd New Moon Watch 2025

13 May 2025

Shalom Aleichem,

The third new moon is expected to be visible on 27 May for parts of North and South America, and Israel on 28 May. Share your new moon report.

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Third New Moon Mentioned in Miqra

  • Bereshit (Exodus) 19:1
  • Divrei Hayamim I (1 Chronicles) 27:5
  • Divrei Hayamim II (2 Chronicles) 15:10, 31:7
  • Esther 8:9
  • Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 31:1

May יהוה be with you,

Ya’aqov Meyer

Shemot (Exodus) 19:1

בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁלִישִׁי לְצֵאת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם בַּיּוֹם הַזֶּה בָּאוּ מִדְבַּר סִינָי
ba-chodesh ha-shelishi le-tzeit bnei yisrael me-eretz mitzrayim ba-yom ha-zeh ba’u midbar sinai
In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai

Divrei Hayamim I (1 Chronicles) 27:5

הַשְּׁלִישִׁי לַחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁלִישִׁי בְּנָיָהוּ בֶּן יְהוֹיָדָע הַכֹּהֵן רֹאשׁ וְעַל מַחֲלֻקְתּוֹ עֶשְׂרִים וְאַרְבָּעָה אָלֶף
ha-shelishi la-chodesh ha-shelishi benayahu ben yehoyada ha-kohen rosh ve-al machalukto esrim ve-arba’ah alef
The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand

Divrei Hayamim II (2 Chronicles) 15:10

וַיִּקָּבְצוּ יְרוּשָׁלַ‍ִם בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁלִישִׁי לִשְׁנַת חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה לְמַלְכוּת אָסָא
vayikkavtzu yerushalayim ba-chodesh ha-shelishi lishnat chamesh esreh le-malkhut asa
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa

Divrei Hayamim II (2 Chronicles) 31:7

בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁלִישִׁי הֵחֵלּוּ לְיַסֵּד הָעֲרֵמוֹת וּבַחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי כִּלּוּ
ba-chodesh ha-shelishi hechellu le-yassed ha-aremot u-va-chodesh ha-shevi’i killu
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month

Esther 8:9

וַיִּקָּרְאוּ סֹפְרֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ בָּעֵת הַהִיא בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁלִישִׁי הוּא חֹדֶשׁ סִיוָן בִּשְׁלוֹשָׁה וְעֶשְׂרִים בּוֹ
vayikkare’u sofre ha-melech ba’et ha-hi ba-chodesh ha-shelishi hu chodesh sivan bi-shloshah ve-esrim bo
Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof

Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 31:1

וַיְהִי בְּעַשְׁתֵּי עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה בַּשְּׁלִישִׁי בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ הָיָה דְבַר יְהוָה אֵלַי לֵאמֹר
vay’hi be’ashtei esreh shanah ba-shelishi be’echad la-chodesh hayah dvar hashem elai lemor
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of YHWH came unto me, saying