9 Bible Verses about The Number Forty

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Matthew 4:1-2

Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil. And having fasted forty days and forty nights, He afterward hungered.

Luke 4:1-2

And Jesus, full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, tempted by the devil forty days. And He ate nothing during those days; and they having been completed, He afterward hungered.

Hebrews 3:9-17

whom our fathers tempted in proving me, and saw my works forty years. Therefore I was provoked with this generation, and I said, They do always err in their heart: and they have not known my way, as I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.read more.
See, brethren, lest at some time there shall be in some one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God: but exhort one another each day, while it is called to-day; in order that no one of you may be hardened with the deceitfulness of sin: for we have been made partakers of Christ, if indeed we may hold fast the beginning of confidence firm unto the end. In that it is said, This day if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation: for who were those, having heard, who were hardened? yea, were they not all those having come out of Egypt under Moses? And with whom was he provoked forty years? was it not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Acts 7:36

He led them out, doing wonders and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Acts 13:18

and when he supported them about the time of forty years in the wilderness,

Acts 7:23-30

And when the time of the fortieth year was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. And seeing a certain one suffering affliction, he interposed, and executed vengeance in behalf of the oppressed one, slaying the Egyptian. And he supposed that his brethren would understand that God through his hand is giving them salvation: but they did not recognize it.read more.
On the following day, he appeared to them fighting, and undertook to reduce them to peace, saying, Men, you are brethren; therefore do not injure one another. And the one injuring his neighbor thrust him away, saying, Who appointeth you a leader and a judge over us? whether do you wish to kill me, in the manner in which you slew the Egyptian yesterday? And at this word Moses fled, and became a sojourner in the land of Midia, where he begat two sons. And forty years having passed away, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in the flame of fire of the bramble bush.

Acts 13:21

And then they asked for a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years;

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