Overview
The Bible addresses years across 27 verses, drawn from both the Old and New Testaments. These passages cluster most in Genesis, Isaiah and Daniel. Closely related themes include Time, Seed, Day and Early Rising. Figures whose stories touch this theme include Noah, Abraham, Adam and Seth.
Key Bible verses about years
Old Testament
Genesis
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: the day: Heb. between the day and between the night
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. windows: or, floodgates
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. continually: Heb. in going and returning
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. While: Heb. As yet all the days of the earth
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Leviticus
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Isaiah
For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Jeremiah
And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Daniel
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. the covenant: or, a covenant for the: or, with the abominable armies the desolate: or, the desolator
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. the abomination: Heb. to set up the abomination maketh: or, astonisheth
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
New Testament
Luke
People in the Bible and years
Biblical figures whose stories intersect with this theme.
In the Bible dictionary
Studying years for yourself
- Begin with Genesis 1:14, then read the passages below in canonical order.
- Compare how Genesis, Isaiah and Daniel each treat the theme.
- Consider the lives of Noah, Abraham and Adam and how their stories intersect with it.
- Widen the study to related themes: Time, Seed, Day and Early Rising.
Frequently asked questions
What does the Bible say about years?
The Bible addresses years across 27 verses, drawn from both the Old and New Testaments. These passages cluster most in Genesis, Isaiah and Daniel. Closely related themes include Time, Seed, Day and Early Rising. Figures whose stories touch this theme include Noah, Abraham, Adam and Seth.
How many Bible verses are about years?
The Bible references years in 27 verses (King James Version).
Where does the Bible first mention years?
In canonical order, the first of these passages is Genesis 1:14: “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: the day: Heb. between the day and between the night”
Which people in the Bible are associated with years?
Noah, Abraham, Adam, Seth and Elisabeth.
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