Genesis 7:4
7:4 For in seven days
I will cause it to rain
on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”
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.
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.
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 10:10
10:10 As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The
Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 10:1
The Opportunity to Begin Again
10:1 At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.
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.