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Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
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And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
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what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
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Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
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and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
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Jacob Takes Esau’s Blessing
When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
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thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.
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Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.
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taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
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Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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and make forty silver bases to go under them—two bases for each frame, one under each projection.
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and forty silver bases—two under each frame.
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Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
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and made forty silver bases to go under them—two bases for each frame, one under each projection.
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and forty silver bases—two under each frame.
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The Year of Jubilee
“‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.
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At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
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Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
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For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’
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The Lord’s anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.
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Cities of Refuge
“Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns.
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In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns, together with their pasturelands.
