7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

Moses was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments (Ten Words).

When I went up on the mountain to get the stone tablets, the tablets of the promise that Jehovah made to you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights without food or water.

I fell down before Jehovah. Like the first, forty days and nights I did not eat or drink. This was because of all your sin you committed in doing what was evil in the sight of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger.

So he got up and took food and drink. He was strengthened to go for forty days and forty nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.

He fasted forty days and nights, and was very hungry.

He spent forty days in the wilderness being tempted by the devil. He did not eat anything during those days so when it was over he was hungry.

My knees give way because I have been fasting. My body has become lean, without any fat.