Thematic Bible: Forty


Thematic Bible



Moses was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments (Ten Words).

When I went up on the mountain to get the stone tablets, the tablets of the promise that Jehovah made to you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights without food or water.

Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain. He was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

So I fell down prostrate before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights. I did this because Jehovah said he would destroy you.


May all your enemies die like that, Jehovah, may your friends shine like the rising sun! There was peace in the land for forty years.

There was peace in the land for forty years until Othniel died.

Midian was defeated by the Israelites and was no longer a threat. The land was at peace for forty years, until Gideon died.


He must not beat him more than forty lashes. If he beats more than that your brother will be degraded in your eyes.



The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

You explored the land for forty days. So for forty years, one year for each day, you will suffer for your sins and know what it means for me to be against you.'


A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.


The Lord Jehovah says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.


So he got up and took food and drink. He was strengthened to go for forty days and forty nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.


Forty days later they returned from exploring the land.


Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey walking, and he shouted: Nineveh will be overthrown in Forty days.


The flood came upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark high above the earth.


It took forty days, which is the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.


After you have finished this lie down again. This time lie on your right side, and bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you forty days, a day for each year.


After forty days Noah opened the window he constructed in the ark.






He must not beat him more than forty lashes. If he beats more than that your brother will be degraded in your eyes.