'Seven' in the Bible

And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.

If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.

And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech:

And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters:

And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he came to his end.

Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.

And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.

Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?

And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.

Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven.

And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people.

And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.

Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.

And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.

And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.

And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.

But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.

And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.

And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;

Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;

And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first;

And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:

And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.

The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.

And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.

Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.

And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.