'Forty' in the Bible
Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
and you are to make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames -- two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise two bases under the next frame for its two projections;
and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.
So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
He made forty silver bases under the twenty frames -- two bases under the first frame for its two projections, and likewise two bases under the next frame for its two projections,
and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame and two bases under the next frame.