I have divided these up into three categories: All the uses of day with a number, all the uses of day which in context mean a typical day, and any uses of day which could mean a long period of time.
Uses of Day with the Number (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
(Num 1:1) The LORD
spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the
second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
(Num 1:18) and on the first day of the second month, they
assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by clans,
by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and
upward, head by head,
(Num 6:9) "And
if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head,
then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.
(Num 6:10) On the eighth day he shall bring two
turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of
meeting,
(Num 7:12) He who
offered his offering the first day
was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.
(Num 7:18) On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar,
the chief of Issachar, made an offering.
(Num 7:24) On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, the
chief of the people of Zebulun:
(Num 7:30) On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur,
the chief of the people of Reuben:
(Num 7:36) On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai, the chief of the people of Simeon:
(Num 7:42) On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel,
the chief of the people of Gad:
(Num 7:48) On the seventh day Elishama the son of
Ammihud, the chief of the people of Ephraim:
(Num 7:54) On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur, the chief of the people of Manasseh:
(Num 7:60) On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni,
the chief of the people of Benjamin:
(Num 7:66) On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai, the chief of the people of Dan:
(Num 7:72) On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran,
the chief of the people of Asher:
(Num 7:78) On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, the
chief of the people of Naphtali:
(Num 9:3) On the fourteenth day of this month, at
twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its
statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."
(Num 9:5) And they
kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of
Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the people of Israel
did.
(Num 9:11) In the
second month on the fourteenth day
at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and
bitter herbs.
(Num 10:11) In the
second year, in the second month, on the twentieth
day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the
testimony,
(Num 11:19) You shall
not eat just one day, or two days, or
five days, or ten days, or twenty days,
(Num 14:34) According
to the number of the days in which
you spied out the land, forty days,
a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall
know my displeasure.'
(Num 19:12) He shall
cleanse himself with the water on the third
day and on the seventh day, and
so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the
seventh day, he will not become clean.
(Num 19:19) And the
clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the
seventh day. Thus on the seventh day
he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water,
and at evening he shall be clean.
(Num 28:16) "On the fourteenth day of the first month
is the LORD's Passover,
(Num 28:17) and on the fifteenth day of this month is a
feast. Seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
(Num 28:18) On the first day there shall be a holy
convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work,
(Num 28:25) And on the seventh day you shall have a
holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
(Num 29:1) "On
the first day of the seventh month
you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets,
(Num 29:7) "On
the tenth day of this seventh month
you shall have a holy convocation and afflict yourselves. You shall do no work,
(Num 29:12) "On
the fifteenth day of the seventh
month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work,
and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.
(Num 29:17) "On
the second day twelve bulls from the
herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,
(Num 29:20) "On
the third day eleven bulls, two
rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,
(Num 29:23) "On
the fourth day ten bulls, two rams,
fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,
(Num 29:26) "On
the fifth day nine bulls, two rams,
fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,
(Num 29:29) "On
the sixth day eight bulls, two rams,
fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,
(Num 29:32) "On
the seventh day seven bulls, two
rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,
(Num 29:35) "On
the eighth day you shall have a
solemn assembly. You shall not do any ordinary work,
(Num 31:19) Encamp
outside the camp seven days. Whoever
of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify
yourselves and your captives on the third
day and on the seventh day.
(Num 31:24) You must
wash your clothes on the seventh day,
and you shall be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp."
(Num 33:3) They set
out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out
triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,
(Num 33:38) And Aaron
the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD and died there, in the
fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
Uses
of Day Which Are Context, Typical 24 Hour Days
(Num 3:13) for all the
firstborn are mine. On the day that
I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own
all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They shall be mine: I am
the LORD."
(Num 6:11) and the
priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering,
and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And
he shall consecrate his head that same
day
(Num 7:1) On the day when Moses had finished setting
up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings
and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
(Num 7:10) And the
chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs
offered their offering before the altar.
(Num 7:11) And the
LORD said to Moses, "They shall offer their offerings, one chief each day, for the dedication of the
altar."
(Num 7:84) This was
the dedication offering for the altar on the
day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates,
twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,
(Num 8:17) For all the
firstborn among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,
(Num 9:6) And there
were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they
could not keep the Passover on that day,
and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
(Num 9:15) On the day that the tabernacle was set up,
the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And at evening it
was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.
(Num 9:16) So it was
always: the cloud covered it by day
and the appearance of fire by night.
(Num 9:21) And
sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. And when the cloud
lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud
lifted they set out.
(Num 10:10) On the day of your gladness also, and at
your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the
trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God."
(Num 10:34) And the
cloud of the LORD was over them by day,
whenever they set out from the camp.
(Num 11:31) Then a wind
from the LORD sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall
beside the camp, about a day's journey
on this side and a day's journey on
the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the ground.
(Num 11:32) And the
people rose all that day and all night
and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least
gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the
camp.
(Num 14:14) and they
will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O LORD, are
in the midst of this people. For you, O LORD, are seen face to face, and your
cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
(Num 15:32) While the
people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
(Num 16:41) But on the next day all the congregation of
the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying,
"You have killed the people of the LORD."
(Num 17:8) On the next day Moses went into the
tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had
sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.
(Num 22:30) And the
donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all
your life long to this day? Is it my
habit to treat you this way?" And he said, "No."
(Num 25:18) for they
have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter
of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their
sister, who was killed on the day of the
plague on account of Peor."
(Num 28:3) And you
shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the LORD:
two male lambs a year old without blemish, day
by day, as a regular offering.
(Num 28:9) "On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a
year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain
offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:
(Num 28:26) "On the day of the firstfruits, when you
offer a grain offering of new grain to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you
shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work,
(Num 30:5) But if her
father opposes her on the day that
he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall
stand. And the LORD will forgive her, because her father opposed her.
(Num 30:7) and her
husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her
pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
(Num 30:8) But if, on the day that her husband comes to
hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the
thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. And the LORD will
forgive her.
(Num 30:12) But if her
husband makes them null and void on the
day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning
her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has
made them void, and the LORD will forgive her.
(Num 30:14) But if her
husband says nothing to her from day to
day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges that are upon her.
He has established them, because he said nothing to her on the day that he
heard of them.
(Num 32:10) And the
LORD's anger was kindled on that day,
and he swore, saying,
(Num 15:23) all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,
Here is the only possible example in Numbers of "day" meaning anything other than a typical, 24 hour day. However, upon close examination all it means is that all the commandments which the Lord has given you starting with Moses on Sinai until today. As usual, the word day is pointing back to a specific day when the Lord began giving his commandments to Moses. Day is a starting point, but does not represent the entire time period.
The research shows the following:
Every time the word day is used in Numbers with a number it means a 24 hour day.
When it is not used with the number it still points to a specific day in the past, present, or future.
Nowhere in Numbers is the word day ever used to mean a long period of time.
Every time the word day is used in Numbers with a number it means a 24 hour day.
When it is not used with the number it still points to a specific day in the past, present, or future.
Nowhere in Numbers is the word day ever used to mean a long period of time.
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