Genesis 7:12 New International Version (NIV)

¹² And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:17 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁷ For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

Exodus 24:18 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁸ Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 32:1 New International Version (NIV)

The Golden Calf

32 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods^[a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”

Exodus 34:28 New International Version (NIV)

²⁸ 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.

Deuteronomy 9:9 New International Version (NIV)

⁹ 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.

Deuteronomy 9:11 New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:18 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁸ 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.

Deuteronomy 9:25 New International Version (NIV)

²⁵ I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you.