Quotes about Three
The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.
— Lao Tzu
Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”
— Numbers 22:28
“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
— John 2:20
Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.
— Genesis 29:34
After Abimelech had reigned over Israel for three years,
— Judges 9:22
This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
— Deuteronomy 19:7
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
— Proverbs 30:21
Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
— John 2:19
So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.
— Exodus 10:22
Six branches extended from the sides, three on one side and three on the other.
— Exodus 37:18
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
— Genesis 40:16
Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.
— Joshua 9:16