And he spake unto him yet again, and said, "What if there be forty found there?" And he said, "I will not do it for forty's sake."

For seven days hence will I send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights and will destroy all manner of things that I have made, from off the face of the earth."

and there fell a rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth, and the water increased and bare up the ark and it was lift up from off the earth.