Genesis 7:12   (Read all of Genesis 7)

And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:17   (Read all of Genesis 7)

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

Genesis 8:6   (Read all of Genesis 8)

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

Genesis 50:3   (Read all of Genesis 50)

taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Exodus 24:18   (Read all of Exodus 24)

Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28   (Read all of Exodus 34)

Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant-the Ten Commandments.

Numbers 13:25   (Read all of Numbers 13)

At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.

Numbers 14:34   (Read all of Numbers 14)

For forty years-one year for each of the forty days you explored the land-you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.'

Deuteronomy 9:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

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

Deuteronomy 9:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:18   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord's sight and so arousing his anger.

Deuteronomy 9:25   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 10:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 10)

Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the Lord listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.

1 Samuel 17:16   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.

1 Kings 19:8   (Read all of 1 Kings 19)

So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Jonah 3:4   (Read all of Jonah 3)

Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city, proclaiming, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown."

Matthew 4:2   (Read all of Matthew 4)

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

Mark 1:13   (Read all of Mark 1)

and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.

Luke 4:2   (Read all of Luke 4)

where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

John 2:20   (Read all of John 2)

They replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?"

Acts 1:3   (Read all of Acts 1)

After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.