The 25th day of the Biblical Hebrew month starts at:
sunset on the 27th through sunset on the 28th of the Gregorian month.
Exodus 23:12
For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.
Hanukkah Begins on the Biblical Lunar Calendar!
The extra-Biblical book of Maccabees says…
Maccabees 4:59
Then Judas and his brothers and all the assembly of Israel determined that every year at that season the days of the dedication of the altar should be observed with gladness and joy for eight days, beginning with the twenty-fifth day of the month of Chislev. (Ninth Month)
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