“... Seven-day units are common in biblical literature. For the scale of numbers up to ten,4 seven was the number used to mark completion or fulh1ess.5 Seven days is the length of the joumey in Genesis 31:23.6 It applies also to the time of the Samson's wedding feast in Judges 14:12-15 and to the period of Job's lamentation in Job 2:13. It is the number of times the psalmist praises God in Psalm 119:164 and the number of persons to whom the generous soul is to make donations in Ecclesiastes 11:2. Seven days was traditional for other religious pe1iods in both Ugaritic and biblical literature. It was on the seventh day of Danil's rite in the temple that Baal interceded for him and El blessed him (KTU 1.17 I 15-16),1 just as it was on the seventh day that God called to Moses on the cloud-covered mountain (Exodus 24:16).8 In what the biblical scholar Michael David Coogan cleverly calls a "final parade example," the fall of Jericho occurred on the seventh day after seven p1iests with seven trumpets marched seven times around the city (Joshua 6:15-16)0 Seven is also the well-known number of years of prosperity and scarcity in the Joseph story in Genesis 41:26-31;10 the best silver is refined seven times according to Psalm 12:6 (MT 7); and seven is the number of abominations harbored in the mind of the deceitful enemy in Proverbs 26:25. ...”