wn to our own
time. Methuselah saw Adam, Shem saw Methuselah, Jacob saw Shem, Amram
saw Jacob, and Ahijah the Shilonite saw Amram, and Ahijah was seen by
Elijah, who is alive to this day.

Ibid., fol. 121, col. 2.

Seven years' famine will not affect the artisan.

_Sanhedrin_, fol. 29, col. 1.

Seven years of pestilence will not cause a man to die before his time.

Ibid.

"And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were
upon the earth" (Gen. vii. 10). Why this delay of seven days? Rav says
they were the days of mourning for Methuselah; and this teaches us that
mourning for the righteous will defer a coming calamity. Another
explanation is, that the Holy One--blessed be He!--altered the course of
nature during these seven days, so that the sun arose in the west and
set in the east.

Ibid., fol. 108, col. 2.

The first step in transgression is evil thought, the second scoffing,
the third pride, the fourth outrage, the fifth idleness, the sixth
hatred, and the seventh an evil eye.

_Derech Eretz Zuta_, chap. 6.

Seven things cause affliction:--Slander, shedding of blood, perjury,
adultery, pride, robbery, and envy.

_Erchin_, fol. 17, col. 2.

A ram has but one voice while alive but seven after he is dead. How so?
His horns make two trumpets, his hip-bones two pipes, his skin can be
extended into a drum, his larger intestines can yield strings for the
lyre and the smaller chords for the harp.

_Kinnim_, chap. 3, mish. 6.

Rav Chisda said, The soul of a man mourns over him the first seven days
after his decease; for it is said (Job xiv. 22), "And his soul shall
mourn over him."

_Shabbath_, fol. 152, col. 2.

The Rabbis have taught that a man should not drink water on Wednesdays
and Saturdays after night-fall, for if he does, his blood, because of
risk, will be upon his own head. What risk? That from an evil spirit who
on these evenings prowls abroad. But if the man be thirsty, what is he
to do? Let him repeat over the water the seven voices ascribed to the
Lord by David in Psalm xxix. 3-9, "The voice of the Lord is upon the
waters," etc.

_P'sachim_, fol. 112, col. 1.

Seven precepts did Rabbi Akiva give to his son Rabbi Yehoshua:--(1.) My
son, teach not in the highest place of the city; (2.) Dwell not in a
city where the leading men are disciples of the wise; (3.) Enter not
suddenly into thine own house, and of course not into thy neighbor's;
(4.) Do not go about without sh