For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made

Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Report of the Spies

At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’

When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

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

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger.

“So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

“I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the Lord listened to me that time also. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.

So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”