And I saw, and, behold, a Lamb standing upon mount Sion, and with him a hundred forty-four thousand, having the name of his Father written in their foreheads.

And they sing as a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders: and none could learn the song, except the hundred forty-four thousand, purchased from the earth.

And he measured her wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which is the angel.

And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

And with whom was he offended forty years? was it not with them having sinned, whose members fell in the desert?

And the court-yard that without the temple throw out, and thou mayest not measure it: for it was given to the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty-two months.

And a mouth was given him speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given him to make war forty-two months.

Then said the Jews, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

To them also he presented himself living, after he suffered, by many infallible signs, through forty days seen to them, and speaking the things of the kingdom of God:

For the man was more than forty years, upon whom this sign of healing was done.

And when the time of forty years was completed to him, it came up upon his heart to take a view of his brethren the sons of Israel.

And forty years completed, a messenger of the Lord was seen to him in the desert of mount Sina, in a flame of fire in a bramble.

He brought them out, having done wonders and sign in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the desert forty years.

And God turned, and delivered them up to serve the army of heaven; as it has been written in the book of the prophets, Slain victims and sacrifices brought ye not to me forty years in the desert, O house of Israel,

And about forty years time he bare them in the desert.

And thence they desired a king; and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.

And there were more than forty having made this conspiracy.

Therefore thou shouldest not be persuaded by them: for more than forty men of them lie in wait for him, who anathematized themselves, neither to eat or drink till they should kill him: and now are they prepared, expecting a promise from thee.