4:10

You are observing special days and months and seasons and years: This clause tells how the Galatians were enslaving themselves. They were celebrating festivals in the Jewish calendar as a way to be made right with God.

The word days probably refers to keeping the Sabbath. The word months could refer to the monthly new moon celebration. The word seasons could refer to the various Jewish festivals throughout the year such as Passover. The word years may refer to the sabbatical years or the year of Jubilee.

Some ways to translate this clause are:

You are celebrating ?the Jewish festivals,? ? which include? the days, the months, the seasons, and the years, ?as if you could earn your salvation by doing this? !
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?When? you observe ?Jewish? festivals, the days, the months, the season, and the years, ?then you are becoming slaves again? !
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Why do you observe days, months, seasons, and years ?commanded by the law? ?

When the Galatians started to follow the law of Moses in order to be made right with God, they were required to celebrate these festivals. Paul confronted the Galatians with the foolishness of what they were doing.

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