'Forty Years' in the Bible

For, more than forty years old, was the man, upon whom had taken place, this healing sign.

And, when there was being fulfilled unto him a period of forty years, it came up on his heart to look after his brethren the sons of Israel;

And, when forty years were fulfilled, there appeared unto him, in the desert of Mount Sinai, a messenger, in a flame of fire, in a bush.

The same, led them forth, doing wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the desert, forty years:

But God, turned, and delivered them up to be doing divine service unto the host of heaven, - just as it is written in a book of the prophets - Victims and sacrifices did ye offer unto me, forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

And, for the time of about forty years, bare with their manners in the desert;

And, from that time, they asked for themselves a king, and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years;