And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Now Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and fathered Jared.

Now Enoch lived sixty-five years, and fathered Methuselah.

Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water 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 open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground had dried up.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so he was named Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

And Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good gift; finally my husband will acknowledge me as his wife, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.

For these twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons.

All the people belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all,

Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.

and he took six hundred select chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.

On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”

The Sabbath

Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,

Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”

See, the Lord has given you the Sabbath; for that reason He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain, everyone, in his place; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day.”

For six days you shall labor and do all your work,

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; for that reason the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall leave as a free man without a payment to you.

The Sabbath and the Land

“Now you shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

“For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as the stranger residing with you, may refresh themselves.

The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.