And the rain fell ¹  on the earth forty days and forty nights.

After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished. ¹ 

They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem ¹  for forty years.

Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem ¹  for forty years.

Abraham ¹  spoke to him again, ²  “What if forty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

Moses went into the cloud when he went up ¹  the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. ² 

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

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

The land had rest for forty years; then Othniel son of Kenaz died.

Meanwhile for forty days the Philistine approached every morning and evening and took his position.

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.

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

For ¹  a period of about forty years he put up with ²  them in the wilderness. ³ 

There were more than forty of them who formed this conspiracy. ¹ 

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

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

For in seven days ¹  I will cause it to rain ²  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; 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