74 Bible Verses About Years

To consider the years through the lens of Holy Scripture is to perceive the divine rhythm woven into existence. The Bible speaks of years not merely as measures of chronological passage, but as seasons unfolding God's eternal plan, marking epochs of grace, trial, and covenant. Reflecting on these verses reveals the profound significance time holds in the divine economy, guiding our perspective on life's fleeting moments and the enduring purposes of the Almighty. Such contemplation nourishes the soul, providing wisdom for navigating our earthly pilgrimage within the vast panorama of eternity, illuminating the spiritual lessons embedded within the journey of our days.

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Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

Serious Study: Bible Truths About Life's Years

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Genesis 17:17KJV

And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

Genesis 25:7KJV

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Genesis 23:1KJV

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.

Genesis 25:8KJV

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

Genesis 25:17KJV

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

Genesis 25:26KJV

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

Genesis 29:20KJV

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

Genesis 29:27KJV

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

Judges 6:1KJV

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

Genesis 29:30KJV

This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

Genesis 31:38KJV

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 31:41KJV

So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Genesis 12:4KJV

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Genesis 14:4KJV

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:3KJV

And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

Genesis 5:8KJV

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

Genesis 11:12KJV

And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

Genesis 5:17KJV

And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

Genesis 5:31KJV

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Genesis 7:6KJV

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

Genesis 11:22KJV

And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:23KJV

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

Genesis 11:24KJV

And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

Genesis 11:20KJV

And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Genesis 17:25KJV

And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

Genesis 16:16KJV

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

Genesis 35:28KJV

And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

Genesis 41:1KJV

The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

Genesis 41:26KJV

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

Genesis 41:27KJV

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

Genesis 41:29KJV

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

Genesis 41:34KJV

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Genesis 41:35KJV

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

Genesis 41:47KJV

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

Genesis 41:48KJV

And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.

Genesis 41:53KJV

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Genesis 47:9KJV

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

Genesis 50:22KJV

And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.

Exodus 6:16KJV

And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

Exodus 6:18KJV

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

Exodus 12:40KJV

And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:41KJV

If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Exodus 21:2KJV

And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

Exodus 23:10KJV

And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.

Judges 10:3KJV

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

Leviticus 25:3KJV

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

Leviticus 25:16KJV

And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

Leviticus 25:8KJV

Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

Leviticus 25:27KJV

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

Leviticus 25:50KJV

If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

Leviticus 25:51KJV

And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

Leviticus 27:3KJV

And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

Leviticus 27:6KJV

And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

Leviticus 27:5KJV

From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Numbers 4:3KJV

And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

Numbers 33:39KJV

For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

Deuteronomy 2:7KJV

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Deuteronomy 8:2KJV

It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

Deuteronomy 15:18KJV

At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

Deuteronomy 15:1KJV

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

Deuteronomy 31:10KJV

And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

Joshua 14:10KJV

And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

Judges 12:11KJV

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Judges 15:20KJV

And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.

Ruth 1:4KJV

Ish–bosheth Saul’s son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

2 Samuel 2:10KJV

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

2 Samuel 5:4KJV

In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

2 Samuel 5:5KJV

Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.

1 Kings 1:1KJV

And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 2:11KJV

And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 14:20KJV

And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 15:10KJV

In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.

1 Kings 15:33KJV

And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

1 Kings 16:29KJV

Reflecting upon these scriptural passages, we confront the profound mystery of years. They are not merely arbitrary units on a calendar, but markers of our finite journey within the infinite. The Bible reveals time's swift passage, likening life to a vapor, grass that withers, or a tale that is told. This brevity serves not to instill despair, but to awaken us to the precious, irretrievable nature of each season. It calls us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Our years are a gift, a canvas upon which we inscribe our response to the divine call. They urge us to seek not only fleeting temporal achievements but an enduring connection with the Eternal. Let the passage of years remind us to live with intention, purpose, and a constant gaze fixed upon the horizon of eternity, where time finds its ultimate meaning and fulfillment.