The Seventh Day, God Rests

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.

If Cain's revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech's is seventy-sevenfold.”

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

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 forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.

In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.

And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”

He said, “These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”

Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.”

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.

He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.