Genesis 7:12
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12 The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
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Genesis 7:4
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4 Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.”
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Matthew 4:2
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2 For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.
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Genesis 7:17
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17 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.
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1 Kings 19:8
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8 So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai,[a] the mountain of God.
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- 19:8 Hebrew to Horeb, another name for Sinai.
Deuteronomy 10:10
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10 “As for me, I stayed on the mountain in the Lord’s presence for forty days and nights, as I had done the first time. And once again the Lord listened to my pleas and agreed not to destroy you.
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Deuteronomy 9:18
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18 “Then, as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger.
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Deuteronomy 9:9
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9 This happened when I was on the mountain receiving the tablets of stone inscribed with the words of the covenant that the Lord had made with you. I was there for forty days and forty nights, and all that time I ate no food and drank no water.
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Exodus 24:18
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18 Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mountain. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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