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.”

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.

According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.

Asa passed away in the forty-first year of his reign.

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for eight years.

David reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years, and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.

He reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.

Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

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

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.

The Levites received within the land owned by the Israelites forty-eight cities in all and their grazing areas.

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the Lord to fight on the plains of Jericho.

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

No human foot will pass through it, and no animal’s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.

You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.

When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced, “At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?