A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ¹  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ²  and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation ¹  Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. ²  You will take turns guarding the palace. ³ 

Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others ¹  will stand in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.

and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,

the third to Zaccur and his sons and relatives – twelve in all,

and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

He must purify himself ¹  with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean.

Jeroboam and all the people reported ¹  to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”

The third army commander, assigned the third month, was Benaiah son of Jehoiada the priest. He was the leader of his division, which consisted of 24,000 men.

Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”

Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left. ¹ 

but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire ¹  on the third day.

On the third day Eliab son of Helon, leader of the Zebulunites, presented an offering. ¹ 

and for a drink offering you must offer one-third of a hin of wine as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Ezer was the leader, Obadiah the second in command, Eliab the third,

The sons of Hebron: ¹  Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps ¹  and finished in the seventh month.