'Three' in the Bible

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five:

And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.

And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;

And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.

And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.

And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.

And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi.

And sent them three days' journey away: and Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flock.

Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.

Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days;

After three days Pharaoh will give you honour, and put you back into your place, and you will give him his cup as you did before, when you were his wine-servant.

Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days;

After three days Pharaoh will take you out of prison, hanging you on a tree, so that your flesh will be food for birds.

So he put them in prison for three days.

To every one of them he gave three changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred bits of silver and five changes of clothing.

All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number.

And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months.

And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.

And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three.

And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.

But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.

And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.

Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water.

And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.

Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.

It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other.

Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches.

And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.

On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;

And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.

And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel.

For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.

It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other;

Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches;

The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,

The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases;

And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases.

A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.

And she will be unclean for thirty-three days till the flow of her blood is stopped; no holy thing may be touched by her, and she may not come into the holy place, till the days for making her clean are ended.

And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.

And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.

And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.

Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

And if the person is from one month to five years old, then the value for a male will be five shekels of silver, and for a female three shekels.

Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered.

Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Naphtali were numbered.

Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

The number of his army was fifty-nine thousand, three hundred.

The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four hundred.

These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three.

And the price you have to give for the two hundred and seventy-three first sons of the children of Israel which are in addition to the number of the Levites,

From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand, three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the scale of the holy place;

Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two hundred.

Sometimes the cloud was resting on the House for two or three days; then, by the order of the Lord, they kept their tents in that place, and when the Lord gave the order they went on.

So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them;

And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of meeting. And the three of them went out.

Then with the ox give a meal offering of three tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with half a hin of oil.

Then the Lord gave the ass the power of talking, and opening her mouth she said to Balaam, What have I done to you that you have given me blows these three times?

And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.

And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three times: if she had not gone to one side, I would certainly have put you to death and kept her safe.

Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing.

These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred.

These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred.

Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.

And three tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for every ox; and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one sheep;

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil: let three tenth parts of an ephah be offered for an ox and two tenth parts for a male sheep;

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every one of the thirteen oxen, two tenth parts for every male sheep,

And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

(Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

And journeying on from before Hahiroth, they went through the sea into the waste land: they went three days' journey through the waste land of Etham and put up their tents in Marah.

Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old at the time of his death in Mount Hor.

Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east;

At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands;

On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness.

You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.

And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.

If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you:

One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.

Go through the tents and give orders to the people, saying, Get ready a store of food; for in three days you are to go over this river Jordan and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.