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A organização considera o outono de 537 AEC o ano em que os primeiros exilados voltaram a Jerusalém sob o decreto de Ciro, e esse é o ponto final fixo a partir do qual se conta para trás até 607 AEC.

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A organização considera o outono de 537 AEC o ano em que os primeiros exilados voltaram a Jerusalém sob o decreto de Ciro, e esse é o ponto final fixo a partir do qual se conta para trás até 607 AEC. Source: The Watchtower, 1 de outubro de 2011Source: Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, 1988

A posição da organização ou explicação posterior: O Estudo Perspicaz raciocina que o decreto de Ciro provavelmente foi emitido ‘by the winter of 538 B.C.E. or toward the spring of 537 B.C.E.’, prevendo quatro meses de viagem, de modo que os exilados chegaram ‘by the seventh month (Tishri, or about October 1) of 537 B.C.E.’

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Publicação primária das Testemunhas de Jeová Verificado

The Watchtower, “When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?—Part One”

1 de outubro de 2011 · pp.28-29 · pars. 19-20 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“According to Bible chronology, then, the 70 years was a literal period of time that ended in 537 B.C.E. Counting back 70 years, the start date of the period would be 607 B.C.E.”

The preceding paragraph fixes the end of the exile: “The decree ending their exile was issued in ‘the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia.’ … Thus, by the fall of 537 B.C.E., the Jews had returned to Jerusalem to restore true worship.” The whole of the organisation’s date for 607 rests on this subtraction.

Nota de procedência e verificação for The Watchtower, When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?—Part One

Nota de confiança. Full document fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read in full; the quotation, the paragraph and the page were confirmed against the article text and its embedded page markers (span class=“pageNum”).

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Notes. 607 BCE is reached by counting back from 537 BCE, not by dating the destruction directly.

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-chr-o-w-2011-1001-count-back

Publicação primária das Testemunhas de Jeová Verificado

Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, “Chronology”

1988 · pp.458-459 · under “From Human Creation to the Present” · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Another date that can be used as a pivotal point is the year 539 B.C.E., supported by various historical sources as the year for the overthrow of Babylon by Cyrus the Persian. (Secular sources for Cyrus’ reign include Diodorus, Africanus, Eusebius, and Ptolemy, as well as the Babylonian tablets.)”

The article explains that a pivotal date must be “a date in history that has sound basis for acceptance and that corresponds with a particular event recorded in the Bible”, and reasons that Cyrus’ decree was issued by the winter of 538 or spring of 537 B.C.E., allowing the exiles to reach Jerusalem “by the seventh month (Tishri, or about October 1) of 537 B.C.E.”

Nota de procedência e verificação for Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, Chronology

Nota de confiança. Full article fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; the quotation and the page were confirmed against the text and its embedded page markers. Insight on the Scriptures is undated on the Online Library; the 1988 publication year is the work’s own imprint date.

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Notes. Insight calls 539 BCE a “pivotal point”, not an “absolute date”; the earlier “absolute date” wording belongs to the 1968 Watchtower articles recorded separately. It names Ptolemy among its supports.

Consultado em. 19 de setembro de 2026 · Identificador da fonte. src-chr-o-it1-chronology-pivotal-539

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