'Forty' in the Bible
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.'
These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.