“nights” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word nights appears 27 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 26 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 7:4 For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.
- Genesis 7:12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Exodus 24:18 And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: And he was there forty days and forty nights.
- Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights: he neither ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tables the ten words of the covenant.
- Deuteronomy 9:9 When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you: and I continued in the mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water.
- Deuteronomy 9:11 And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,
- Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell down before the Lord as before, forty days and nights neither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:
- Deuteronomy 9:25 And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had threatened:
- Deuteronomy 10:10 And I stood in the mount, as before, forty days and nights: and the Lord heard me this time also, and would not destroy thee.
- 1 Kings 30:12 As also a piece of a cake of figs, and two bunches of raisins. And when he had eaten them, his spirit returned, and he was refreshed: for he had not eaten bread, nor drunk water, three days and three nights.
- 3 Kings 19:8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.
- Tobias 3:10 Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:
- Tobias 8:4 Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock.
- Judith 12:7 And she went out in the nights into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water.
- Esther 4:16 Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in Susan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger.
- Job 2:13 And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Job 7:3 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
- Psalms 133:2 In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye the Lord.
- Canticle of Canticles 5:2 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.
- Isaias 21:8 And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.
- Daniel 3:71 O ye nights and days, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
- Jonas 2:1 Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.
- 2 Machabees 8:7 And especially in the nights he went upon these expeditions, and the fame of his valour was spread abroad every where.
- Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
- Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was in the whale’s belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
- Mark 1:13 And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was tempted by Satan. And he was with beasts: and the angels ministered to him.