'Day' in the Bible

In the Sinai desert, the LORD spoke to Moses inside the Tent of Meeting on the first day of the second month of the second year after they had left the land of Egypt. He said,

This is a record of the genealogies of Aaron and Moses current as of the day on which the LORD addressed Moses on Mount Sinai.

When someone suddenly dies beside him, so that his consecrated head is defiled, then he is to shave his head on the day of his purification. Seven days later he is to shave it again.

On the eighth day, he is to bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Then the priest is to offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to make atonement for him because of the guilt he incurred on account of his contact with the dead body. Then he is to consecrate his head on that day.

The same day that Moses finished setting up, anointing, and consecrating the tent and its utensils, he also anointed and consecrated the altar and its utensils.

The leaders brought the offerings for the dedication of the altar the same day that it was anointed. After the leaders brought their offering to the altar,

the LORD told Moses, "They are to present their offerings, one leader per day, for the dedication of the altar."

On the first day Amminadab's son Nahshon, from the tribe of Judah, presented

On the second day, Zuar's son Nethanel, leader of the descendants of Issachar, presented

On the third day, Helon's son Eliab, leader of the descendants of Zebulun presented

On the fourth day, Shedeur's son Elizur, leader of the descendants of Reuben presented

On the fifth day, Zurishaddai's son Shelumiel, leader of the descendants of Simeon, presented

On the sixth day, Deuel's son Eliasaph, leader of the descendants of Gad, presented

On the seventh day, Ammihud's son Elishama, leader of the descendants of Ephraim, presented

On the eighth day, Pedahzur's son Gamaliel, leader of the descendants of Manasseh, presented

On the ninth day, Gideoni's son Abidan, leader of the descendants of Benjamin, presented

On the tenth day, Ammishaddai's son Ahiezer, leader of the descendants of Dan, presented

On the eleventh day, Ochran's son Pagiel, leader of the descendants of Asher, presented

On the twelfth day, Enan's son Ahira, leader of the descendants of Naphtali, presented

This was what was presented at the dedication of the altar from the leaders of Israel on the same day that it was anointed: twelve silver bowls, twelve silver basins, twelve gold ladles.

since every firstborn of Israel belongs to me, from human beings to livestock. On the same day that I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated them to myself,

on the fourteenth day of this month. You are to observe it at this appointed time between the evenings. You are to observe it according to all its decrees and laws."

They observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai. The Israelis did everything that the LORD had commanded through Moses.

But there were men who couldn't observe the Passover that day because they had come in contact with a corpse. That very day, they approached Moses and Aaron

On the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight, they are to eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

It was so continuously there was a cloud covering by day, and a fire cloud appeared at night.

There were times when the cloud remained from evening until morning, but when the cloud ascended in the morning, they would journey. Whether by day or by night, they would travel whenever the cloud ascended.

On the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, the cloud was lifted up from the Tent of Meeting,

So they traveled from the mountain of the LORD, a three-day trip, with the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD traveling in front of them a three day trip to explore a place for them to rest.

Moreover, the cloud of the LORD protected them during the day when they left their camp.

not only for a day, or for two days, or for five days, or for ten days, or for 20 days,

The people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all through the next day, gathering quails. The one who gathered least gathered enough to fill ten omers, as they spread out all around the camp.

they'll also proclaim to the inhabitants of this land that they've heard you're among this people, LORD, whom they've seen face to face, since your cloud stands guard over them. You've guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night.

Just as you explored the land for 40 days, you'll bear the consequences of your iniquities for 40 years one year for each day as you experience my hostility.

including anything that the LORD commanded you by the authority of Moses, starting from the day the LORD commanded Moses and continuing through your generations.

As it was when the Israelis were in the wilderness, they found a man who was gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

Nevertheless, the very next day, the whole congregation of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, "You've killed the LORD'S people!"

He is to purify himself on the third day and he will be clean on the seventh day. But if he can't purify himself on the third day then he can't be clean on the seventh day.

The clean person is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and seventh day and then he is to purify himself on the seventh day, wash his clothes, and bathe with water. He is to be considered clean at evening.

The next day, Balak brought Balaam up to Bamoth-baal, where he could see part of the community of Israel.

Tell them that this is the offering, presented by fire, that you are to offer to the LORD: two one year old lambs, offered daily every day.

This burnt offering, which was prescribed at Mount Sinai, is to be offered every day as a pleasing aroma made by fire to the LORD.

"Every Sabbath day, you are to offer two one year old lambs without any defects with two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for grain offering, mixed with olive oil, along with their corresponding drink offering.

"On the first day of each month, you are to offer a burnt offering to the LORD consisting of two young bulls, one ram, and seven one year old lambs, all of them without any defects,

"The LORD's Passover is to take place on the fourteenth day of the first month.

You are to hold a festival on the fifteenth day of this month for seven days, during which time unleavened bread is to be eaten."

"On the first day, you are to hold a sacred assembly. No servile work is to be done.

Do this every day for seven days, as an edible sacrifice to the LORD made by fire, a pleasing aroma. It is to be offered apart from the regular burnt offering and its corresponding drink offering.

On the seventh day you are to hold another sacred assembly for your benefit, on which no servile work is to be done."

"On the first day of your harvest season, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present your first fruits during the Festival of Weeks. No servile work is to be done.

"You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day of the seventh month of each year. No servile work is to be done. It's a day of blowing trumpets for you.

"You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth day of this same seventh month. You are to humble yourselves, and no servile work is to be done.

"You are to hold a sacred assembly on the fifteenth day of the same seventh month. No servile work is to be done. You are to celebrate a festival to the LORD for seven days by

"On the second day, you are to present twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,

"On the third day, you are to present eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,

"On the fourth day, you are to present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,

"On the fifth day, you are to present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,

"On the sixth day, you are to present eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,

"On the seventh day, you are to present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,

"On the eighth day, you are to call a sacred assembly. No servile work is to be done.

But if her father disallows her on the same day that he hears what she has said, then all her vows and every obligation she had pledged herself to fulfill are not to stand. The LORD will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her."

and her husband hears her vow, yet remains silent on the day that he hears it, then her vows are to stand and the obligation to which she had pledged herself is to stand.

But if, on the same day her husband hears and disallows her, then he has revoked her vows that she made for herself, along with any hasty vows that she spoke and to which she pledged herself to fulfill. The LORD will forgive her."

But if her husband disallowed them the very day that he heard her, everything that she spoke relating to her vows and her obligation to herself are not to stand, because her husband revoked them. The LORD will forgive her.

But if her husband remains silent about her from day to day, then he has affirmed all her vows or obligations that she has obligated herself to fulfill. He has affirmed them because he remained silent from the day he heard her vows.

"Now you are to stay outside the camp for seven days, after which any of you who has killed a person or touched someone who was killed may purify yourselves on the third day. You and your captives will be pure on the seventh day.

Wash your clothes on the seventh day, after which you will be clean. Then you may enter the camp."

That's why the LORD's anger flared up that day and he promised by an oath that

They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of that first month. The day after the Passover, the Israelis came out confidently, and all the Egyptians watched them leave,

Then Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor in obedience to the LORD's command and died there, in the fortieth year after the Israelis had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.