'Forty Years' in the Bible

for the man on whom the wonderful cure had been performed was more than forty years old.

When forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

It was he who brought them out of Egypt by performing wonders and signs there and at the Red Sea -- as he did also in the desert for forty years.

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the starry host, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets: 'Did you really offer me victims and sacrifices those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Then after He had fed them forty years in the desert,

Then they demanded a king, and for forty years God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin.

Where your forefathers found I stood their test, because they saw my works for forty years,

With whom was He disgusted forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the desert?