For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.

And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

And he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned no more to him.

And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey, and overtook him on mount Gilead.

And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan; and there they lamented with a great and very grievous lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father of seven days.