'Forty Days' in the Bible

For in seven days I will cause it to rain 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."

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

The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

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

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

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

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

They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

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

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.

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.

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

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.

When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, "At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"