“This is its meaning,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches represent ¹  three days.

Joseph replied, “This is its meaning: The three baskets represent ¹  three days.

He imprisoned ¹  them all for three days.

those of them numbered by their families were 3,200.

So they traveled from the mountain of the Lord three days’ journey; ¹  and the ark of the covenant of the Lord was traveling before them during the three days’ journey, to find a resting place for them.

After three days the leaders went through the camp

I will shoot three arrows near it, as though I were shooting at a target.

and 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep ¹  were consecrated.

the descendants of Senaah: 3,630.

the descendants of Senaah, 3,930.

We must go ¹  on a three-day journey ²  into the desert and sacrifice ³  to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us.” ⁴ 

He composed ¹  3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs.

Jehoiada, the leader of Aaron’s descendants, brought 3,700 men with him,

He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

So these three men refused to answer ²  Job further, because he was righteous in his ³  own eyes.

But when Elihu saw ¹  that the three men had no further reply, ²  he became very angry.

Here is the official record of the number of people ¹  Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, ²  3,023 Jews;

Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to war. The names of the ¹  three sons who went to war were Eliab, his firstborn, Abinadab, the second oldest, and Shammah, the third oldest.

Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, ¹  while ²  Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you ¹  and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you.”