'Days' in the Bible

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;

The Lord God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this,Cursed are you more than all cattle,And more than every beast of the field;On your belly you will go,And dust you will eatAll the days of your life;

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;Cursed is the ground because of you;In toil you will eat of itAll the days of your life.

Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters.

So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

So all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.

So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.

So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”

It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth.

The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.

and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.

Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;

So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return to him again.

So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

And it came about in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.

Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.

But her brother and her mother said, “Let the girl stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.”

When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with earth.

Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the same names which his father had given them.

So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury subsides,

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

And he put a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.

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

Then Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days;

within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office; and you will put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand according to your former custom when you were his cupbearer.

Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.”

So he put them all together in prison for three days.

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves that I may tell you what will befall you in the days to come.

Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

When the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days mourning for his father.