So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; ¹  he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. ² 

According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for ¹  your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me. ² 

At the end of forty days, ¹  Noah opened the window he had made in the ark ² 

“So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.

Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

David was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned for forty years.

He ruled for forty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹  His grandmother ²  was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

You did not bring me ¹  sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family ²  of Israel.

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign ¹  of healing had been performed, ²  was over forty years old.

The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long. ¹ 

Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. ¹ 

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

and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.

Asa passed away ¹  in the forty-first year of his reign.

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind ¹  to visit his fellow countrymen ²  the Israelites. ³ 

So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

The judge ¹  may sentence him to forty blows, ²  but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite ³  with contempt.

“There your fathers tested me and tried me, ¹  and they saw my works for forty years.

As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.

Those numbered in his division are 40,500.