147. The number of months in a year, appointed in the Book of God, is nineteen.
The Baha'i year, in accordance with the Badi' calendar, consists of nineteen months of nineteen days each, with the addition of certain intercalary days (four in an ordinary year and five in a leap year) between the eighteenth and nineteenth months in order to adjust the calendar to the solar year. The Bab named the months after certain attributes of God. The Baha'i New Year, Naw-Ruz, is astronomically fixed, coinciding with the March equinox (see note 26). For further details, including the names of the days of the week and the months, see the section on the Baha'i calendar in The Baha'i World, volume XVIII. (228:2)

148. the first hath been adorned with this Name which overshadoweth the whole of creation
In the Persian Bayan, the Bab bestowed the name "Baha" on the first month of the year (see note 139). (228:3)

149. The Lord hath decreed that the dead should be interred in coffins
In the Bayan, the Bab prescribed that the deceased should be interred in a coffin made of crystal or polished stone. Shoghi Effendi, in a letter written on his behalf, explained that the significance of this provision was to show respect for the human body which "was once exalted by the immortal soul of man". (228:4)

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