Genesis 7:12

7:12 And the rain fell ¹  on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 18:29

18:29 Abraham ²  spoke to him again, ³  “What if forty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

Genesis 8:6

8:6 At the end of forty days, ⁴  Noah opened the window he had made in the ark ⁵ 

Genesis 7:4

7:4 For in seven days ⁶  I will cause it to rain ⁷  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 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 ⁸  the whole city because five are lacking?” ⁹  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, ¹⁰  the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. ¹¹ 

Genesis 26:34

26:34 When ¹²  Esau was forty years old, ¹³  he married ¹⁴  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 ¹⁵  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. ¹⁶  The Egyptians mourned ¹⁷  for him seventy days. ¹⁸ 

[7:12]  ¹ tn Heb “was.”

[18:29]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:29]  ³ tn The construction is a verbal hendiadys – the preterite (“he added”) is combined with an adverb “yet” and an infinitive “to speak.”

[8:6]  ³ tn The introductory verbal form וַיְהִי (vayÿhi), traditionally rendered “and it came to pass,” serves as a temporal indicator and has not been translated here.

[8:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “opened the window in the ark which he had made.” The perfect tense (“had made”) refers to action preceding the opening of the window, and is therefore rendered as a past perfect. Since in English “had made” could refer to either the ark or the window, the order of the phrases was reversed in the translation to clarify that the window is the referent.

[7:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “for seven days yet,” meaning “after [or “in”] seven days.”

[7:4]  ⁵ tn The Hiphil participle מַמְטִיר (mamtir, “cause to rain”) here expresses the certainty of the act in the imminent future.

[18:28]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew verb שָׁחַת (shakhat, “to destroy”) was used earlier to describe the effect of the flood.

[18:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “because of five.”

[25:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “And Isaac was the son of forty years when he took Rebekah.”

[25:20]  ⁷ 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.

[26:34]  ⁷ tn The sentence begins with the temporal indicator (“and it happened”), making this clause subordinate to the next.

[26:34]  ⁸ tn Heb “the son of forty years.”

[26:34]  ⁹ tn Heb “took as a wife.”

[47:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “the days of the years.”

[50:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “and forty days were fulfilled for him, for thus are fulfilled the days of embalming.”

[50:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “wept.”

[50:3]  ¹¹ sn Seventy days. This probably refers to a time of national mourning.