For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

(for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)

“When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days – I have assigned one day for each year.

“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate a pilgrim festival of the Lord for seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is complete rest.

But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth days, and rested on the fifteenth, making it a day for banqueting and happiness.

On the sixth day they will prepare what they bring in, and it will be twice as much as they gather every other day.”

Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the Lord, as I commanded your ancestors.

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

On this day, in the month of Abib, you are going out.

You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the Lord your God; you must not do any work on that day.

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

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

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.

On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.

You must not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”

On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.

“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

So on that day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites,