Thematic Bible: Prolonged


Thematic Bible



While Moses was there with the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights, he did not eat or drink. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyWaterForty DaysTen ThingsMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Law Given Through Moses

Then I went up to the mountain to receive the two stone Tablets of the Covenant that the LORD had established with you. I stayed on the mountain for 40 days and nights without eating food or drinking water. Verse ConceptsFasting, Reasons ForWaterMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At Sinai

When Moses went up on the mountain, he went into the center of the cloud and was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthGoing Up Mountains

I fell down in the LORD's presence, just as I had the first 40 days and nights. I did not eat food or drink water because of your sin. You had sinned by committing this evil in the sight of the LORD, thereby provoking him to anger. Verse ConceptsMediatorProstrationWaterFasting, Accompanied ByMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

"At that time I, Daniel, had been mourning for three straight weeks. I ate no fancy foods neither meat nor wine entered my mouth. Furthermore, I didn't use any ointment until the end of the entire three weeks.

So Elijah got up, ate and drank, and survived on that one meal for 40 days and nights as he set out on his journey to Horeb, God's mountain. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods


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