7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Then I lay prostrate before the LORDas before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD 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 after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.