Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard.

"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Then Jacob said, "Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more."

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.