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Large, the sixth [[Text:EBD:Month (EBD)|month]] of the civil and the twelfth of the ecclesiastical [[Text:EBD:Year (EBD)|year]] of the [[Text:EBD:Jew (EBD)|Jews]] (Esther 3:7, 13; 8:12; 9:1, 15, 17, 19, 21). It included the [[Text:EBD:Day (EBD)|days]] extending from the new moon of our March to the new moon of April. The name was first used after the [[Text:EBD:Captivity (EBD)|Captivity]]. When the [[Text:EBD:Seasons (EBD)|season]] was backward, and the [[Text:EBD:Lamb (EBD)|lambs]] not yet of a paschal size, or the [[Text:EBD:Barley (EBD)|barley]] not forward enough for [[Text:EBD:Abib (EBD)|abib]], then a month called Veadar, i.e., a second Adar, was intercalated.