years But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three {years} and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; years And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many {years}; take thine ease, eat, drink, [and] be merry. years Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three {years} I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? years And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen {years}, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? years And he answering said to [his] father, Lo, these many {years} do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: ~~~~~~