Quotes about Seventeen

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now--a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience.