Deuteronomy 9:9

9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there ¹  forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Deuteronomy 9:18

9:18 Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

Deuteronomy 9:1

Theological Justification of the Conquest

9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. ² 

Deuteronomy 19:8

19:8 If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors ³  and gives you all the land he pledged to them, ⁴ 

Matthew 4:2

4:2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished. ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.

³ tn Heb “fathers.”

⁴ tn Heb “he said to give to your ancestors.” The pronoun has been used in the translation instead for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Grk “and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.”