And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,

So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

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

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark

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

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

For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.

what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”

Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”

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

But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so; then you may go.”

and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Jacob Takes Esau’s Blessing

When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

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

thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.