Joseph replied, “This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.

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

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

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.”

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

Jacob set up a marker over her grave; it is the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

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

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

So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

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

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

God made two great lights – the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.

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

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

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