There were _seven_ lamps in the great candlestick of the Tabernacle and Temple, representing the _seven_ planets. _Seven_ times Moses sprinkled the anointing oil upon the altar. The days of consecration of Aaron and his sons were _seven_ in number. A woman was unclean _seven_ days after child-birth; one infected with leprosy was shut up _seven_ days; _seven_ times the leper was sprinkled with the blood of a slain bird; and _seven_ days afterwards he must remain abroad out of his tent. _Seven_ times, in purifying the leper, the priest was to sprinkle the consecrated oil; and _seven_ times to sprinkle with the blood of the sacrificed bird the house to be purified. _Seven_ times the blood of the slain bullock was sprinkled on the mercy-seat; and _seven_ times on the altar. The _seventh_ year was a Sabbath of rest; and at the end of _seven_ times _seven_ years came the great year of jubilee. _Seven_ days the people ate unleavened bread, in the month of Abib. _Seven_ weeks were counted from the time of first putting the sickle to the wheat. The Feast of the Tabernacles lasted _seven_ days. Israel was in the hand of Midian _seven_ years before Gideon delivered them. The bullock sacrificed by him was _seven_ years old. Samson told Delilah to bind him with _seven_ green withes; and she wove the _seven_ locks of his head, and afterwards shaved them off. Balaam told Barak to build for him _seven_ altars. Jacob served _seven_ years for Leah and _seven_ for Rachel. Job had _seven_ sons and _three_ daughters, making the perfect number _ten_. He had also _seven_ thousand sheep and _three_ thousand camels. His friends sat down with him _seven_ days and _seven_ nights. His friends were ordered to sacrifice _seven_ bullocks and _seven_ rams; and again, at the end, he had _seven_ sons and _three_ daughters, and twice _seven_ thousand sheep, and lived an hundred and forty, or twice _seven_ times _ten_ years. Pharaoh saw in his dream _seven_ fat and _seven_ lean kine, _seven_ good ears and _seven_ blasted ears of wheat; and there were _seven_ years of plenty, and _seven_ of famine. Jericho fell, when _seven_ priests, with _seven_ trumpets, made the circuit of the city on _seven_ successive days; once each day for six days, and _seven_ times on the seventh. "The _seven_ eyes of the Lord," says Zechariah, "run to and fro through the whole earth." Solomon was _seven_ years in building the Temple. _Seven_ angels, in the Apocalypse, pour out _seven_ plagues, from _seven_ vials of wrath. The scarlet-colored beast, on which the woman sits in the wilderness, has _seven_ heads and _ten_ horns. So also has the beast that rises up out of the sea. _Seven_ thunders uttered their voices. _Seven_ angels sounded _seven_ trumpets. _Seven_ lamps, of fire, the _seven_ spirits of God, burned before the throne; and the Lamb that was slain had _seven_ horns and _seven_ eyes.