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Actually, this phraseology most likely derives from the Hebrew idiom of mentioning a thing by the convention of merely detailing their "bookends", as I call them. "Bracketing".
Identifying an item by mentioning its bounding extrema.
As in "alpha and omega" to mean "everything". The 3 days are an example of this idiom. Friday night to Sunday morning become: "Friday & Sunday".
Both bibles are replete with idioms and puns.
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