No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:

And when you have fulfilled them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days; a day for a year; a day for a year, I have set for you.

And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side - and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

and in the four corners of the court, were courts covered over, forty long and thirty broad: of one measure, were those four.