And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Laban Pursues Jacob

On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:

On the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.”

On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.

Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up.

If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted. It will not be reckoned to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.

It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or on the next day; anything left over until the third day must be burned up.

If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is impure and will not be accepted.

On the third day, Eliab son of Helon, the leader of the people of Zebulun, brought his offering.

They must purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on the third and seventh days, they will not be clean.

“‘On the third day offer eleven bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.

So the Israelites set out and on the third day came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath Jearim.

They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before.

David Destroys the Amalekites

David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it,

On the third day a man arrived from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor.

The third day after my child was born, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one in the house but the two of us.

“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.

Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord on the third day from now?”

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad in heart for the good things the Lord had done for David and Solomon and for his people Israel.

The temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Esther’s Request to the King

On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king’s hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance.

At once the royal secretaries were summoned—on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai’s orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush. These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language.

After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.