Forty

“For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.”

“After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark”

“taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.”

“Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.”

“So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.”

“When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.”

“So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.”

“So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.”