There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.

There was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.

There was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.

God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.

Even though she continued to speak to Joseph day after day, he did not respond to her invitation to have sex with her.

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

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

The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

Isaac said, “Since I am so old, I could die at any time.

God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

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

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

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

Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.

God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

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

But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

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.”