'Days' in the Bible

God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.

For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made."

And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

But Rebekah's brother and her mother replied, "Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go."

There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father's servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.

Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left.

So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.

"This is its meaning," Joseph said to him. "The three branches represent three days.

In three more days Pharaoh will reinstate you and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you did before when you were cupbearer.

Joseph replied, "This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.

In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you."

He imprisoned them all for three days.

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's royal court, "If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,