7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

And he got up 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 hungry afterward.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. When they were completed, he was hungry.

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.