7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

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.

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.

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.

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.

After fasting for 40 days and 40 nights, he finally became hungry.

where he was being tempted by the Devil for 40 days. During that time he ate nothing at all, and when they were over he became hungry.

My knees give way from fasting, and my skin is lean, deprived of oil.