9 Bible Verses about The Number Forty

Then Jesus was led into the desert by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights and afterwards felt hungry.

and in the desert he remained for forty days, while Satan tempted him; he was in the company of wild beasts, but angels ministered to him.

From the Jordan Jesus came back full of the holy Spirit, and for forty days he was led by the Spirit in the desert, while the devil tempted him. During these days he ate nothing, and when they were over he felt hungry.

After his sufferings he had shown them that he was alive by a number of proofs, revealing himself to them for forty days and discussing the affairs of God's Realm.

where your fathers put me to the proof, and for forty years felt what I could do. Therefore I grew exasperated with that generation, I said, 'They are always astray in their heart': They would not learn my ways; so I swore in my anger, 'they shall never enter my Rest.'read more.
Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God. Rather admonish one another daily, so long as this word To-day is uttered, that none of you may be deceived by sin and hardened. For we only participate in Christ provided that we keep firm to the very end the confidence with which we started, this word ever sounding in our ears, To-day, when you hear his voice, harden not your hearts as at the Provocation. Who heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? And with whom was he exasperated for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

He it was who led them forth, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the desert during forty years.

For about forty years he bore with them in the desert,

When he had completed his fortieth year, it occurred to him to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel. He saw one of them being badly treated, so he defended him, struck down the Egyptian, and thus avenged the man who had been wronged. (He thought his brothers would understand God was going to bring them deliverance by means of him, but they did not understand.)read more.
Next day he came upon two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. "You are brothers!" he said, "why injure one another?" But the man who was injuring his neighbour pushed him aside. "Who made you ruler and umpire over us?" he asked. "Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?" At that Moses fled; he became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he had two sons born to him. At the close of forty years an angel [of the Lord] appeared to him in the flames of a burning thorn-bush, in the desert of mount Sinai.

Then it was that they begged for a king, and God gave them forty years of Saul, the son of Kish, who belonged to the tribe of Benjamin.