Quotes about Days

The Human Words of God speak of the Creation in terms that could be understood by the men of old. There is no talk of galaxies or genes, for such terms would have confused them greatly! But must we therefore take as scientific fact the story that the world was created in six days, thus making a nonsense of observable data?

But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”

Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.