'Six' in the Bible

And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun.

These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.

All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.

And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

And he took six hundred carriages, all the carriages of Egypt, and captains over all of them.

For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.

On six days do all your work:

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud.

It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other.

And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it.

Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and the other six are to be joined together, the sixth being folded over to make a hanging in front of the tent.

And six boards for the back of the House on the west,

Six names on the one stone and six on the other, in the order of their birth.

Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.

Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group.

And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards,

It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other;

And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it.

A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.

But if she gives birth to a female child, then she will be unclean for two weeks, as when she is unwell; and she will not be completely clean for sixty-six days.

On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.

And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.

For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered.

Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered.

Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.

Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred.

The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first.

The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred.

The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty.

The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags.

These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place.

Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred.

Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty.

And they came with their offerings before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen; a cart for every two of the chiefs, and for every one an ox.

Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, I will give them flesh to be their food for a month.

These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred.

These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred.

Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.

The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;

And thirty-six thousand oxen,

And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;

For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

On six days do all your work:

If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.

Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the town, going all round it once. Do this for six days.

The second day they went all round the town once, and then went back to their tents: and so they did for six days.

The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.

And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six towns with their unwalled places.

And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six towns with their unwalled places.

And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.

Now Jephthah was judge of Israel for six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in his town, Mizpeh of Gilead.

So six hundred men of the Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol went out armed with instruments of war.

And the six hundred armed men of the Danites took their places by the doorway.

Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the land, went in and took the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image; and the priest was by the doorway with the six hundred armed men.

And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

But six hundred men, turning back, went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land, and were living on the rock of Rimmon for four months.

And he said, Take your robe, stretching it out in your hands: and she did so, and he took six measures of grain and put them into it, and gave it her to take: and she went back to the town.

And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.

And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

Then Samuel went up from Gilgal and the rest of the people went up after Saul against the men of war, and they came from Gilgal to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: and Saul took the number of the people who were with him, about six hundred men.

And Saul was still waiting in the farthest part of Geba, under the fruit-tree in Migron: there were about six hundred men with him;

And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.

The stem of his spear was as long as a cloth-worker's rod, and its head was made of six hundred shekels' weight of iron: and one went before him with his body-cover.

Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there.

So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor.

And the time when David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah was seven years and six months.

Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.

And when those who were lifting the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he made an offering of an ox and a fat young beast.

And all the people went on by his side; and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the men of Ittai of Gath, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, went on before the king.

And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.

The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;

And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.

There were six steps going up to it, and the top of it was round at the back, there were arms on the two sides of the seat, and two lions by the side of the arms;

And twelve lions were placed on the one side and on the other side on the six steps: there was nothing like it in any kingdom.

A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

(For Joab and all Israel were there six months till every male in Edom had been cut off;)

In the thirty-first year of Asa, king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel, and he was king for twelve years; for six years he was ruling in Tirzah.

So the king of Aram said, Go then; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went, taking with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.