7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.

when I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, and I abode in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water, --

And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.

My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;