Quotes about Forty
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
- Genesis 7:4
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 7:12
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
- Genesis 7:17
After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
- Genesis 8:6
Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”
- Genesis 18:29
When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
- Genesis 26:34
taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
- Genesis 50:3
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Exodus 24:18
and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.
- Exodus 26:21
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.
- Exodus 34:28
In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
- Numbers 14:34
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.
- Deuteronomy 9:9