7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

And he was there with LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread, nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

When I was gone up onto the mount to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which LORD made with you, then I abode on the mount forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

And I fell down before LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD, to provoke him to anger.

And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.

being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days, and when they were ended, afterward he was hungry.

My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness.