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Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.
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Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.
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“This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.
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“This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.
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Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”
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And he put them all in custody for three days.
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Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.
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Jacob Blesses His Sons
Then Jacob called for his sons and said: “Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.
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taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,
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The Plague of Frogs
Seven days passed after the Lord struck the Nile.
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So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.
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No one could see anyone else or move about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.
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For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
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On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
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For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.
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For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the Lord.
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Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.
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“In days to come, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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The Waters of Marah and Elim
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.
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On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”
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Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”
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Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.”
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The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
