7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.

And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

So he got up and took food and drink, and in the strength of that food he went on for forty days and nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.

And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.

For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.

My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.