7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights, and neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote in the tables the words of the covenant: even ten verses.

after that I was gone up into the mount, to fetch the tables of stone, the tables of covenant which the LORD made with you. And I abode in the hill forty days and forty nights and neither ate bread nor drank water.

And I fell before the LORD, even as at the first time - forty days and nights, and neither ate bread nor drank water - over all your sins which ye had sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD and in provoking him.

And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights, unto Horeb the mount of God,

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward a hungered.

and was forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days ate he nothing: And when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

My knees are weak through fasting; my flesh is dried up for want of fatness.