27 Bible Verses about Three Days

They moved away from Jacob with this flock as far as he could travel in three days. Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flocks.

They will listen to what you say. You with the elders of Israel will approach the king of Egypt. You will say to him: 'Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.'

Then they said: The God of the Hebrews met with us. Please, let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness. Then we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God. Otherwise he will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.

We need to travel three days into the desert to offer sacrifices to Jehovah our God, as he told us to do.

Moses led Israel away from the Red Sea into the desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.

The people left Sinai, the holy mountain. They traveled three days. Jehovah's Ark of the Covenant always went ahead of them to find a place for them to camp.

They moved from Pi Hahiroth and went through the middle of the sea into the desert. After they traveled for three days in the Desert of Etham, they set up camp at Marah.

This is what it means, Joseph said to him. The three branches are three days.

Joseph answered: This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.

He put all of them together in prison for three days.

Moses raised his hand toward the sky. Total darkness fell throughout Egypt for three days.

The Egyptians could not see each other. No one left his house during that time. The Israelites, however, had light where they were living.

If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted. It will not be considered for his benefit. It will be an offensive thing, and the person who eats of it will bear his own iniquity.

If you eat any of it on the third day, it is repulsive and will not be accepted.

She said: Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers return and afterward go your way.

They went to the mountain and stayed there three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers looked for them everywhere but did not find them.

The young woman's father insisted that he stay. So he stayed for three days. The couple had their meals and spent the nights there.

Do not trouble yourself about the donkeys that were lost three days ago. They have been found. Who will have all that is desirable in Israel? Will it be you and your father's family?

The day after tomorrow you will be missed even more. So go to the place where you hid on that other occasion. Stay by the rock.

Gad told David the three choices as follows: Seven years of famine could come to you and your land. You could flee from your enemies as they pursue you for three months. Or there could be a three-day plague in your land? Think it over, and decide what answer I should give the one who sent me.

Three years of famine? Three months of running away from the armies of your enemies? Or: three days in which Jehovah attacks you with his sword and sends an epidemic on your land. He will use his angel to bring death throughout Israel? What answer shall I give Jehovah?

Come back in three days and I will give you my answer, he replied. So they left.

They insisted until he gave in and let them go. The fifty of them went and looked high and low for Elijah for three days. But they did not find him.

They feasted and drank with David for three days. Their relatives had made preparations for their arrival.

We went to Jerusalem and were there for three days.

I stayed at Jerusalem for three days.