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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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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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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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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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At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
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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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When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.
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At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
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Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger.
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I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you.
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Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.
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For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.
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So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
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Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
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After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
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and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.
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where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
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They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”
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After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
