For in seven more days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And I will destroy from off the face of the earth every living thing that I have made.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And he spoke to Him yet again, and said, Perhaps there shall be forty found there. And He said, I will not do it for forty's sake.

And after he fathered Mahalaleel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And the flood was upon the earth forty days. And the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

And it happened, at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

Perhaps there will be five lacking from the fifty righteous. Will You destroy all the city for lack of five? And He said, If I find there forty-five, I will not destroy it.

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.

And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty-seven years.

And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.