Seven full days passed after the Lord struck the Nile.

For six days you may labor and do all your work,

So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”

No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord.

Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

“Thus you are to do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you are to consecrate them for seven days.

“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.

No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

Bread made without yeast must be eaten for seven days; no bread made with yeast shall be seen among you, and you must have no yeast among you within any of your borders.

Then Moses led Israel to journey away from the Red Sea. They went out to the Desert of Shur, walked for three days into the desert, and found no water.

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

The glory of the Lord resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

The priest who succeeds him from his sons, when he first comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, is to wear them for seven days.

For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.

For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is made with yeast – that person will be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a foreigner or one born in the land.

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

It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.