Quotes About Time

The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.

And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.

When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.

When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”

“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.

“Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.

The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.

After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,

If we had not delayed, we could have come and gone twice by now.”

“How many years have you lived?” Pharaoh asked.

Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

The LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”