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On the seventh day God completed the work he had been doing; he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken.
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God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation.
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Not so! the Lord said to him. If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged seven times. So the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one would kill him at sight.
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If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”
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Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he begot Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.
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When Kenan was seventy years old, he begot Mahalalel.
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When Methuselah was one hundred and eighty-seven years old, he begot Lamech.
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Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he begot Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.
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The whole lifetime of Lamech was seven hundred and seventy-seven years; then he died.
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Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate;
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likewise, of every bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep their progeny alive over all the earth.
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For seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the face of the earth every being that I have made.
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When the seven days were over, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
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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 abyss burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
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that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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He waited yet seven days more and again released the dove from the ark.
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He waited yet another seven days and then released the dove; but this time it did not come back.
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In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
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Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he begot Serug, and he had other sons and daughters.
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When Terah was seventy years old, he begot Abram, Nahor and Haran.
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Abram went as the Lord directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
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Abraham also set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock,
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and Abimelech asked him, “What is the purpose of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”
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Abraham answered, “The seven ewe lambs you shall accept from me that you may be my witness that I dug this well.”
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Chapter 23
Purchase of a Burial Plot. The span of Sarah’s life was one hundred and twenty-seven years.