'Seven' in the Bible

And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.

If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.

And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech:

And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters:

And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he came to his end.

Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.

And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.

Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?

And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.

Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven.

And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people.

And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.

Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.

And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.

And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.

And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.

But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.

And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.

And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;

Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;

And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;

And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:

And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.

The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.

And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.

Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.

And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand on the Nile.

For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.

For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land.

In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me.

You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering:

Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it.

For seven days the son who becomes priest in his place will put them on when he comes into the Tent of meeting to do the work of the holy place.

All these things you are to do to Aaron and his sons as I have given you orders: for seven days the work of making them priests is to go on.

For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.

Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt.

And he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all the necessary instruments for it, of gold.

The gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.

And the silver given by those who were numbered of the people was a hundred talents, and a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.

And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands.

And the priest is to put his finger in the blood, shaking drops of it before the Lord seven times, in front of the veil of the holy place.

And put his finger in the blood, shaking drops of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil.

Seven times he put oil on the altar and on all its vessels, and on the washing-basin and its base, to make them holy.

And you are not to go out from the door of the Tent of meeting for seven days, till the days for making you priest are ended; for this will be the work of seven days.

And you are to keep watch for the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting day and night for seven days, so that death may not come to you: for so he has given me orders.

Say to the children of Israel, If a woman is with child and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean for seven days, as when she is unwell.

But if the mark on his skin is white, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is not turned white, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days;

And the priest is to see him on the seventh day; and if, in his opinion, the place on his skin has not become worse and is not increased in size, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days more:

But if, after looking at it, he sees that there are no white hairs on it, and it is not deeper than the skin, and it is not very bright, then let the priest keep him shut up for seven days:

But if, after looking at it, the priest sees that there is no white hair on the bright place, and it is not deeper than the skin, and is not very bright, then let the priest keep him shut up for seven days:

And after looking at the diseased place, if it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will have him shut up for seven days:

Then his hair is to be cut off, but not on the diseased place, and he is to be shut up for seven days more:

And after it has been seen by the priest, the thing which is so marked is to be shut up for seven days:

Then the priest will give orders for the thing on which the mark is, to be washed, and to be shut up for seven days more:

And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country.

And he who is to be made clean will have his clothing washed and his hair cut and have a bath, and he will be clean. And after that he will come back to the tent-circle; but he is to keep outside his tent for seven days.

And let the priest put his right finger in the oil which is in his left hand, shaking it out with his finger seven times before the Lord;

Shaking out drops of oil with his right finger before the Lord seven times:

Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days:

And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times.

And when a man who has a flow from his body is made clean from it, he is to take seven days to make himself clean, washing his clothing and bathing his body in flowing water, and then he will be clean.

And if a woman has a flow of blood from her body, she will have to be kept separate for seven days, and anyone touching her will be unclean till evening.

And if any man has sex relations with her so that her blood comes on him, he will be unclean for seven days and every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean.

But when her flow of blood is stopped, after seven days she will be clean.

And let him take some of the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it from his finger on the cover of the ark on the east side, and before it, seven times.

Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel.

When an ox or a sheep or a goat is given birth, let it be with its mother for seven days; and after the eighth day it may be taken as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.

And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;

And with the bread, take seven lambs of the first year, without any marks, and one ox and two male sheep, to be a burned offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering of a sweet smell made by fire to the Lord.

Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.

Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day