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By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
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Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
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But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
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If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”
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Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
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and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
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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.”
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And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
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and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
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He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
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By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
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So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
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Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock,
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and Abimelek asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”
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He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.”
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The Death of Sarah
Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.
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Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years.
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Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people.
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Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
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So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
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Finish this daughter’s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.”
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Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
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Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.