7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

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

When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.

I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

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.

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.