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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # about the sixth hour
 
-"about noon." This reflects the custom at the time of counting hours beginning with daybreak at 6 a.m.
+"about noon." People counted the hours of the day starting in the morning at daybreak.
 
 # darkness came over the whole land
 
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@
 
 # until the ninth hour
 
-"until 3 p.m." This reflects the custom at the time of counting hours beginning with daybreak at 6 a.m.
+"until 3 in the afternoon"