and a new song was sung before the throne, and before the four animals, and the elders: and no one could learn that song, but the hundred forty four thousand, who were ransom'd from the earth.

he measured the wall, and it was an hundred and forty four cubits, according to the common measure, which was what the angel employed.

And I heard the number of those who were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred forty and four thousand, of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

THEN I looked, and I saw a lamb on mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his name and his father's name writ on their foreheads.

there having fasted forty days and forty nights, he at length grew hungry.

to this said the Jews, forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, of which they had many proofs, during the forty days he appear'd to them, and inform'd them about the reign of the Messias:

for the man who was so miraculously cured, was above forty years old.

when he was full forty years old, he took the resolution to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina, an angel of the Lord in a flaming bush.

he it was, who delivered them by doing prodigies and miracles in the land of Egypt, in the red sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

then God left them, and abandon'd them to the worship of the celestial army; as it is written in the book of the prophets, "O ye house of Israel, is it to me that ye have offered victims, and sacrifices, for the space of forty years in the wilderness?

for forty years he maintain'd them in the wilderness.

when having demanded a king, God gave them Saul the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin: the government of both having lasted forty years,

the conspirators, who were above forty in number,

but don't believe them: for above forty of them lie in ambush, having bound themselves by oath not to eat or drink till they have kill'd him: they are already prepar'd, and only wait your answer.

from the Jews I have five times received forty stripes save one.

where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works.

but with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with those that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the desert?

but don't measure the court which is without; for it is given to the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they trample under foot two and forty months.

there was given to him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemy; and power was given to him for two and forty months.

where he continued forty days, being tempted by Satan: and when he was among the wild beasts, angels ministred unto him.

being forty days tempted by the devil, without eating any thing all that while: but that time expired, he at last was seiz'd with hunger.