7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

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

When I had gone up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sins which you sinned in doing wickedly in the sight 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 when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterwards hungry.

forty days, being tempted by the Devil. And in those days He ate nothing. And they being ended, He afterward was hungry.

My knees stumble from fasting; and my flesh is losing its fatness.