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 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 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.

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.