Mesorat%20hashas for Rosh Hashanah 4:11

כדאמר רב פפא שנת עשרים שנת עשרים לגזרה שוה הכא נמי שנת ארבעים שנת ארבעים לגזרה שוה מה כאן ליציאת מצרים אף כאן ליציאת מצרים

Now since the text when referring to Ab places it in the fortieth year and again when referring to [the following] Shebat places it also in the fortieth year, we may conclude that Tishri is not the beginning of the year.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As otherwise Ab and Shebat would fall in different years.');">¹⁴</span> [This, however] is not conclusive. I grant you that the former text states explicitly that [the year spoken of was] 'from the going forth from Egypt'; but how do we know that [the year mentioned in] the latter text is reckoned from the exodus?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As it simply says 'In the fortieth year', without specifying from when.');">¹⁵</span>

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