And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

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.”

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.