'Long' in the Bible

The LORD God told the Shining One, "Because you have done this, you are more cursed than all the livestock, and more than all the earth's animals, You'll crawl on your belly and eat dust as long as you live.

The Lord God made tunics of [animal] skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

As long as the earth endures,seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,summer and winter, and day and nightwill not cease.”

But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together,

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)

After this, Abraham resided as a foreigner in Philistine territory for a long period of time.

And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.

Sarah lived for 127 years. That's how long Sarah's life was.

And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

And when Isaac had come to the end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had not long gone away from Isaac his father, Esau came in from the field.

Jacob said, “Look, the sun is still high [overhead]; it is a long time before the flocks need to be gathered [in their folds for the night]. Water the sheep, and go, and return them to their pasture.”

Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?"

Now you have gone off because you long for your father—but why have you stolen my gods?”

I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and compassion and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant. With only my staff [long ago] I crossed over this Jordan, and now I have become [blessed and increased into these] two groups [of people].

Later, they set out from Beth-el. While still a long way from Ephrathah, Rachel started to have trouble giving birth.

Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

And Israel hath loved Joseph more than any of his sons, for he is a son of his old age, and hath made for him a long coat;

But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;

And it cometh to pass, when Joseph hath come unto his brethren, that they strip Joseph of his coat, the long coat which is upon him,

Then they took Joseph’s tunic, slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;

and send the long coat, and they bring it in unto their father, and say, 'This have we found; discern, we pray thee, whether it is thy son's coat or not?'

He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild animal has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces!”

After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to the sheepshearers.

Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time.

Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How long have you lived?"

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."

And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

They took 40 days to complete this, for embalming takes that long, and the Egyptians mourned for him 70 days.