Genesis 5:13

5:13 Kenan lived 840 years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 7:17

7:17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

Genesis 18:28

18:28 what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy ¹  the whole city because five are lacking?” ²  He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Genesis 25:20

25:20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, ³  the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. ⁴ 

Genesis 26:34

26:34 When ⁵  Esau was forty years old, ⁶  he married ⁷  Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Genesis 32:15

32:15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Genesis 47:28

47:28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years ⁸  of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.

Genesis 50:3

50:3 They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. ⁹  The Egyptians mourned ¹⁰  for him seventy days. ¹¹ 

¹ tn The Hebrew verb שָׁחַת (shakhat, “to destroy”) was used earlier to describe the effect of the flood.

² tn Heb “because of five.”

¹ tn Heb “And Isaac was the son of forty years when he took Rebekah.”

² sn Some valuable information is provided here. We learn here that Isaac married thirty-five years before Abraham died, that Rebekah was barren for twenty years, and that Abraham would have lived to see Jacob and Esau begin to grow up. The death of Abraham was recorded in the first part of the chapter as a “tidying up” of one generation before beginning the account of the next.

¹ tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator (“and it happened”), making this clause subordinate to the next.

² tn Heb “the son of forty years.”

³ tn Heb “took as a wife.”

¹ tn Heb “the days of the years.”

¹ tn Heb “and forty days were fulfilled for him, for thus are fulfilled the days of embalming.”

² tn Heb “wept.”

³ sn Seventy days. This probably refers to a time of national mourning.