¹² The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.

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.”

² For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.

¹⁷ For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.

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.