57 occurrences

'Day' in the Bible

God made the two great lights—the greater light (the sun) to rule the day, and the lesser light (the moon) to rule the night; He made the [galaxies of] stars also [that is, all the amazing wonders in the heavens].

Verse ConceptsDays, Natural UseTwoStarsThe SunComparisonsProvision Of DayProvision Of NightTwo Other ThingsSun Moon And Stars Before GodStars Created By GodSunGod's CreationSunshineThe Mooncrusades

to rule over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good and He affirmed and sustained it.

Verse Conceptsdarkness, naturalLight In The WorldLight And DarknessGod Seeing All The EarthProvision Of DayProvision Of NightPerfection Of Creation

And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod, Human Descriptions OfLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfSabbath, In OtThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7DaysRestGod's CreationFinishing Strongfinishing

So God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it [as His own, that is, set it apart as holy from other days], because in it He rested from all His work which He had created and done.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For GodSevenSabbath, In OtConsecrationThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7Holy TimesBlessed By GodCreationGod's CreationSanctification

This is the history of [the origin of] the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day [that is, days of creation] that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens—

Verse ConceptsGod's Creationmakeup

For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil.”

Verse ConceptsAwarenessSin, Causes OfWorldly Ambition ExamplesSatan, Work OfEyes OpenedArrogantly Like GodEating Forbidden FoodKnowing Right And WrongMen As GodsNASB

Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from Your face (presence) I will be hidden, and I will be a fugitive and an [aimless] vagabond on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainFugitivesThe HomelessWanderersDriven From God's PresenceGod HidingBeing Hidden From GodHidden From God

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodGeologyThe DelugeCalendarsSudden DestructionMonth 2The Act Of OpeningOpening HeavenWindows Of HeavenThe Sea Stirred UpFloods

On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,

Verse ConceptsAt The Same TimeEntering The ArkOther Wives

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month [five months after the rain began], the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat [in Turkey].

Verse ConceptsNoah's ArkSabbath, In OtCalendarsMonth 7MotionlessnessComing To RestMonthsFloods

The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

Verse ConceptsMonth 10VisibilityWaters SubsidingMonths

Now in the six hundred and first year [of Noah’s life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and the surface of the ground was drying.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodMonth 2The Act Of OpeningOpening Walls

On the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was [entirely] dry.

Verse ConceptsMonths

On the same day the Lord made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying,“To your descendants I have given this land,From the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates—

Verse ConceptsAbrahamRivers And StreamsProsperity PromisedThe Promised LandAt The Same TimeGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsRiver EuphratesRiver TigrisAs Far As The EuphratesAbrahamic CovenantRiversDescendants of

Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were born in his house and all who were purchased with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin the very same day, as God had said to him.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsAt The Same TimeGroups Of Slaves

On the very same day Abraham was circumcised, as well as Ishmael his son.

Verse ConceptsAt The Same Time

Now the Lord appeared to Abraham by the terebinth trees of Mamre [in Hebron], while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.

Verse ConceptsHeatNoonRevelation, In OtSittingTentsAbraham, Testing And VictoryOaksHot WeatherGod Appearing

Abraham started out early the next morning to the place where he [only the day before] had stood before the Lord;

Verse ConceptsRising Early, Examples OfStandingAbraham, Testing And VictoryRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyEarly Rising

Then the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay with my father last night; let us make him drunk with wine tonight also, and then you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve our family through our father.”

Verse ConceptsFirstborn Daughters

The firstborn gave birth to a son, and named him Moab (from father); he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn DaughtersRelationships To This DayFathers And Daughters

The younger also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-ammi (son of my people); he is the father of the Ammonites to this day.

Verse ConceptsRelationships To This DayFathers And Daughters

The child [Isaac] grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Verse ConceptsFeastingBanquets, Events CelebratedWeaningGrowing Upsarah

On the third day [of travel] Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekSeeing At A Distancedistance

So Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide. And it is said to this day, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be seen and provided.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfAbrahamGod, Titles And Names OfGod's ProvisionGod ProvidingNames Involving GodLooking At God's WorksPlaces To This Dayproviding

Jacob had cooked [reddish-brown lentil] stew [one day], when Esau came from the field and was famished;

Verse ConceptsCooking, Types Of FoodYielding To TemptationVegetablesWeedcookingprepping

Now on the same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, “We have found water.”

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsTelling What People Did

So he named the well Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

Verse ConceptsSwearing OathsGiven Names To This DayPeople Naming Things

When your brother’s anger toward you subsides and he forgets what you did to him, then I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I be deprived of you both in a single day?”

Verse ConceptsAnger, Sinful ExamplesForgetting ThingsAnger SubsidingBereavement

So on that same day Laban [secretly] removed the male goats that were streaked and spotted and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one with white on it, and all the dark ones among the sheep, and put them in the care of his sons.

Verse ConceptsBlack AnimalsBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteTaking Animals

On the third day [after his departure] Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekOthers Who FledTelling Of Movements

I did not bring you the torn carcasses [of the animals attacked by predators]; I [personally] took the loss. You required of me [to make good] everything that was stolen, whether it occurred by day or night.

Verse ConceptsCompensationLossOppression, Nature OfShepherds, As OccupationsAnimals Torn To PiecesDay Or Night

Then He said, “Let Me go, for day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let You go unless You declare a blessing on me.”

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Offered WithDaybreakAt DaybreakMay God Bless!People Releasing Others

Therefore, to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because He touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh by the tendon of the hip.

Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalThighsTouching To HarmForbidden FoodStatutes To This Daymuscles

But Jacob replied, “You know, my lord, that the children are frail and need gentle care, and the nursing flocks and herds [with young] are of concern to me; for if the men should drive them hard for a single day, all the flocks will die.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

So Esau turned back [toward the south] that day on his way to Seir.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals going homefriendliness

Now on the third day [after the circumcision], when all the men were [terribly] sore and in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s [full] brothers, took their swords, boldly entered the city [without anyone suspecting them of evil intent], and they killed every male.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekExterminationDeath Of All MalesPhysical PainTwo SonsPleasurablenessMassacres

then let us get up and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Verse ConceptsDistressGod AnsweredGod Has Been With YouGod With Specific People

Jacob set a pillar (memorial, monument) on her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

Verse ConceptsObelisksPlaces To This Day

Israel (Jacob) said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing [the flock] at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said, “Here I am [ready to obey you].”

Verse ConceptsSheepBehold Me!People Sending People

And so it was that she spoke to Joseph [persistently] day after day, but he did not listen to her [plea] to lie beside her or be with her.

Verse ConceptsImportunity, Towards PeopleAbsence Of SexNot With PeopleSaying Repeatedly

Now on the third day, [which was] the Pharaoh’s birthday, he [released the two men from prison and] made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker [that is, presented them in public] among his servants.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, ReasonsBanquets, Events CelebratedGuestsMealsBirthdaysBirthdays CelebratedLifting Headscelebrating

And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt—valid to this day—that Pharaoh should have the fifth part [of the crops]; only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

Verse ConceptsHuman LawStatutes To This Day

Then Jacob (Israel) blessed Joseph, and said,“The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked [in faithful obedience],The God who has been my Shepherd [leading and caring for me] all my life to this day,

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdBad ParentsKnowing God, Effects OfTravelling With GodShepherds, As Kings And LeadersWatchfulness, DivineParents Duty To ChildrenWalking With GodPeople Who Blessed OthersRelationships To This DayBlessings From GodBlessing OthersSons Being A Blessinggrandfathers

Then Jacob blessed them that day, saying,“By you Israel will pronounce a blessing, saying,‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’”And he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Verse ConceptsLike Good PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

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