'Two' in the Bible

And God made two lights, the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars.

And Lamech took to himself two wives. The name of the first [was] Adah, and the name of the second [was] Zillah.

And of every living thing, from all flesh, you must bring two from every [kind] into the ark to keep [them] alive with you; they shall be male and female.

From the birds according to their kind, and from the animals according to their kind, from every creeping thing [on] the ground according to its kind--two from every kind shall come to you to keep [them] alive.

From all the clean animals you must take for yourself {seven pairs}, a male and its mate. And from the animals that [are] not clean [you must take] two, a male and its mate,

{two of each} went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

And they came to Noah to the ark, {two of each}, from every living thing in which [was] the breath of life.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside.

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, and the two of them put [it] on [their] shoulders and, walking backward, they covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces [were turned] backward, so that they did not see the nakedness of their father.

And to Eber two sons were born. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother [was] Joktan.

These are the generations of Shem. When Shem {was one hundred years old}, he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he fathered Reu, and he fathered [other] sons and daughters.

And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he fathered Serug, and he fathered [other] sons and daughters.

And Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and he fathered [other] sons and daughters.

And the days of Terah [were] two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.

And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening. And Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. Then Lot saw [them] and stood up to meet them. And he bowed down [with his] face to the ground.

Behold, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me bring them out to you; then do to them as [it seems] good in your eyes. Only to these men do not do [this] thing, since they came under{ my roof} for protection."

And as the dawn came up the angels urged Lot saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters {who are staying with you}, lest you be destroyed with the punishment of the city."

But [when] he lingered, the men seized him by his hand and his wife's hand, and his two daughters by hand, on account of the mercy of Yahweh upon him. And they brought him out and set him outside of the city.

And Lot went out from Zoar and settled in the hill country with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.

And the two daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

And Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave [them] to Abimelech. And the two of them {made} a covenant.

Therefore that place is called Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. And he took two of his servants with him, and Isaac his son. And he chopped wood for a burnt offering. And he got up and went to the place which God had told him.

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and placed [it] on Isaac his son. And he took the fire in his hand and the knife, and the two of them went together.

And Abraham said, "{God will provide} the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went together.

And it happened [that] as the camels finished drinking the man took a gold ring of a half shekel in weight and two bracelets for her arms, ten shekels in weight,

And Yahweh said to her, "Two nations [are] in your womb, and two peoples {from birth} shall be divided. And {one people shall be stronger than the other}. And [the] elder shall serve [the] younger."

Go to the flock and take two good young goats from it for me, and I will prepare them [as] tasty food for your father, just as he likes.

Then he said, "{Isn't that why he is named Jacob}? He has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright and, look, now he has taken my blessing!" Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

until the anger of your brother turns from you and he has forgotten what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I lose the two of you in one day?"

Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older [was] Leah, and the name of the younger [was] Rachel.

Then Laban went into Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tent of the two female servants and did not find [his gods]. And he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's tent.

For you have searched all my possessions and what did you find among all the possessions of my household? Set it before my kinsmen and your kinsmen that they may decide between the two of us!

These twenty years [I have been] in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Then Jacob was very frightened and distressed. So he divided the people, flocks, cattle, and camels that [were] with him into two companies.

{I am not worthy} of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown your servant, for with [only] my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, twenty rams,

That night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, Esau [was] coming and four hundred men [were] with him. And he divided the children among Leah and among Rachel, and among the two of his female servants.

And it happened [that] on the third day, while they were in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, each took his sword and came against the unsuspecting city and killed all the males.

And Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief cupbearer and chief baker.

And the two of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who [were] confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, each his own dream, with its own interpretation.

And it happened [that] after {two full years} Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he was standing by the Nile.

Before the years of famine came, Asenath, daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore two sons to him.

Then Reuben said to his father, "You may kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hand and I myself will return him to you."

Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You yourselves know that my wife bore two sons to me.

For these two years the famine [has been] in the midst of the land, but [there will be] five more years where there is no plowing or harvest.

And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt [were] two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt [were] seventy.

And it happened [that] after these things, it was said to Joseph, "Behold, your father [is] ill." And he took his two sons with him, Ephraim and Manasseh.

And now, your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before my coming to you in Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon [are].

And Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim at his right [to] the left of Israel, and Manasseh at his left [to] the right of Israel. And he brought them near to him.

And he went out on the second day, and there were two Hebrew men fighting, and he said to the guilty [one], "Why do you strike your neighbor?"

And they will take [some] of the blood and put [it] on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they eat it.

And take a bunch of hyssop and dip [it] into the blood that [is] in the basin and apply [some] of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. And you will not go out, anyone from the doorway of his house, until morning.

And Yahweh will go through to strike Egypt, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come to your houses to strike [you].

And when it was the sixth day, they gathered twice [as much] bread, two omers for one [person], and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses.

See, because Yahweh has given to you the Sabbath, therefore he is giving to you on the sixth day bread for two days. Stay, {each in his location}; let no one go from his place on the seventh day."

and her two sons--the one whose name [was] Gershom, for he had said, "I have been an alien in a foreign land,"

And he said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, [am] coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her."

Yet if he survives a day or two days, he will not be avenged, because he is his money.

Concerning every account of transgression--concerning an ox, concerning a donkey, concerning small livestock, concerning clothing, concerning all lost property--where [someone] says, "This belongs to me," the matter of the two of them will come to God; whomever God declares guilty will make double restitution to his neighbor.

the oath of Yahweh will be between the two of them [concerning] whether or not he has reached out his hand to his neighbor's possession, and its owner will accept [this], and he will not make restitution.

"And they will make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width and a cubit and a half its height.

And you will cast for it four gold rings, and you will put [them] on its four feet, with two rings on its one side and two rings on its second side.

"And you will make an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width.

And you will make two cherubim of gold; you will make them of hammered work at the two ends of the atonement cover.

And make one cherub {at one end} and one cherub {at the other end} of the atonement cover; you will make the cherubim on its two ends.

And I will meet you there, and I will speak with you from over the atonement cover, from between the two cherubim that [are to be] on the ark of the testimony--all that I will command you to the {Israelites}.

"And you will make a table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height.

And a bud [will be] under the two branches [that come] from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, [likewise] for the six branches coming out from the lampstand.

You will make two {pegs} for the one frame [for] joining {each to another} [and] likewise for all the frames of the tabernacle.

And you will make forty silver bases under the twenty frames, [with] two bases under the one frame for its two {pegs} and two bases under the {next} frame for its two {pegs}.

and their forty silver bases, [with] two bases under the one frame and two bases under the {next} frame.

And you will make two frames for the tabernacle corners at the rear.

They will be double at the bottom, and they will be completely together on its top to the one ring; it will be likewise for the two of them; they will be for the two corners.

And there will be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, with two bases under the one frame and two bases under the {next} frame.

And the poles will be put into the rings, and the poles will be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.

It will have two joining shoulder pieces at its two edges, so that it can be fastened.

"And you will take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the {Israelites},

[As the] work of a skilled stone craftsman, [with] seal engravings you will engrave on the two stones the names of the {Israelites}; you will make them mounted [in] gold filigree settings.

And you will set the two stones on the ephod's shoulder pieces [as] stones of remembrance for the {Israelites}, and Aaron will bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulder pieces for remembrance.

And you will make two braided chains of pure gold ornamental cord work, and you will put the chains of the ornamental cords on the filigree settings.

And you will make on the breast piece two gold rings, and you will put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece.

And you will put the two gold ornamental cords on the two rings on the edges of the breast piece.

And you will put the two ends of the two ornamental cords on the two filigree settings, and you will put [them] on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

And you will make two gold rings, and you will place them on the two ends of the breast piece, on its edge that [is] {on the other side} of the ephod, {to the inside}.

And you will make two rings and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod below at its front near its seam above the waistband of the ephod.

"And this [is] the thing that you will do for them to consecrate them to serve as a priest for me: Take {one young bull} and two rams without defect

and you will put them on one basket, and you will bring them on the basket and [bring] the bull and the two rams.

And you will take and turn into smoke [on] the altar all the fat covering the inner parts and the lobe on the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that [is] on them.

And you will take from the ram the fat and the fat tail and the fat covering the inner parts and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them and the right thigh, because it [is] the ram of ordination.

"And this is what you shall offer on the altar: Two {one-year-old} male lambs {every day} continually.

a cubit its length and a cubit its width--it will be square--and two cubits its height, its horns {of one piece with it}.

And you will make two gold rings for it; under its molding {on two opposite sides} you will make [them] as {holders} for poles to carry it with them.

"And take for yourself top quality balsam oils, five hundred [shekels of] flowing myrrh, half [as much]--two hundred and fifty [shekels of] fragrant cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty [shekels of] fragrant reed,

And when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with the finger of God.

And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the testimony [were] in his hand, tablets written on their two sides; {on the front and on the back} they were written.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Cut for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

And Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and he started early in the morning, and he went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two stone tablets.