7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

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

When I ascended the mount, to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither ate bread, nor drank water:

And 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 sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, 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 afterward hungry.

Being forty days tempted by the devil. And in those days he ate nothing; and when they were ended, he was afterward hungry.

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.