God called the expanse “sky.” Evening came and then morning: the second day.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry.

Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven

Rachel’s slave Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

When Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.

He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, and servants called out before him, “Abrek!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

And the second son he named Ephraim, meaning, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”