Exodus 24:18
24:18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up
the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 34:28
34:28 So he was there with the
Lord forty days and forty nights;
he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
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
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 9:25
Moses’ Plea on Behalf of the Lord’s Reputation
9:25 I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.
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.
Deuteronomy 19:8
19:8 If the
Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors
and gives you all the land he pledged to them,
Matthew 4:2
4:2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.