9 Bible Verses about The Number Forty

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to he tempted by the Devil. And, having fasted forty days and forty nights, He afterwards hungered.

And He was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan; and He was with the wild beasts; and the angels were ministering to Him.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was being led in the Spirit in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by the Devil. And He ate nothing in those days; and, when they were completed, He hungered.

to whom He also presented Himself alive, after He suffered, by many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking the things concerning the Kingdom of God.

where your fathers tempted Me by proving Me, and saw My works, forty years. Wherefore, I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They do always err in their heart, and they did not know My ways; as I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest.'"read more.
Take heed, brethren, lest at any time there shall be in anyone of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; but exhort one another daily, so long as it is called "To-day," lest anyone of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin; for we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end: while it is said, "To-day, if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation." For who, after having heard, did provoke? nay, did not all who came out of Egypt through Moses? And with whom was He displeased forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

This man led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

And for about the time of forty years He bore them as a nursing father in the wilderness.

But, when his fortieth year was being completed, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel. And, seeing a certain one wrongly treated, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian. And he was supposing that his brethren understood that God, through his hand, would give them deliverance; but they understood not.read more.
On the following day, also, he appeared to them while they were fighting and he was urging them to peace, saying, 'Men, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one another?' But he who was wronging his neighbor thrust him away, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you wish to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?' And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons. And, forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him, in the wilderness of mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.

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