46 occurrences

'Day' in the Bible

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

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

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month -- on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

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

On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives.

Verse ConceptsAt The Same TimeEntering The ArkOther Wives

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

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

The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

Verse ConceptsMonth 10VisibilityWaters SubsidingMonths

In Noah's six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodMonth 2The Act Of OpeningOpening Walls

And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

Verse ConceptsMonths

Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsAt The Same TimeGroups Of Slaves

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.

Verse ConceptsAt The Same Time

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Verse ConceptsHeatNoonRevelation, In OtSittingTentsAbraham, Testing And VictoryOaksHot WeatherGod Appearing

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Verse ConceptsFeastingBanquets, Events CelebratedWeaningGrowing Upsarah

On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekSeeing At A Distancedistance

And Abraham called the name of that place "The Lord provides." It is said to this day, "In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made."

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

That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. "We've found water," they reported.

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsTelling What People Did

So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

Verse ConceptsSwearing OathsGiven Names To This DayPeople Naming Things

Stay there until your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I'll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"

Verse ConceptsAnger, Sinful ExamplesForgetting ThingsAnger SubsidingBereavement

Then Jacob said, "Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more."

Verse ConceptsThe SunGathering CreaturesUntimelinessFeeding AnimalsDuring The DayNot The Time

So that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted (all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care of his sons.

Verse ConceptsBlack AnimalsBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteTaking Animals

Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.

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

That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck the socket of Jacob's hip near the attached sinew.

Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalThighsTouching To HarmForbidden FoodStatutes To This Daymuscles

But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

Verse ConceptsTendernessOne DayWeak AnimalsDrivingAnimals SucklingDeath Of CreaturesStrictness

Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel's Grave to this day.

Verse ConceptsObelisksPlaces To This Day

Even though she continued to speak to Joseph day after day, he did not respond to her invitation to have sex with her.

Verse ConceptsImportunity, Towards PeopleAbsence Of SexNot With PeopleSaying Repeatedly

One day he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants were there in the house.

Verse ConceptsBusiness, ExamplesEntering HousesGone Away

On the third day it was Pharaoh's birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He "lifted up" the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, ReasonsBanquets, Events CelebratedGuestsMealsBirthdaysBirthdays CelebratedLifting Headscelebrating

So Joseph made it a statute, which is in effect to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.

Verse ConceptsHuman LawStatutes To This Day

So he blessed them that day, saying, "By you will Israel bless, saying, 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.'" So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Verse ConceptsLike Good PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

Verse ConceptsFuneralsBereavement, Experience OfLamentingSevenWeeksSeven DaysBeyond JordanMourning The Death Of Others

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