'Nights' in the Bible

Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.

Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.

Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.

The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant, at the end of the 40 days and 40 nights.

Then I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoking Him to anger.

“I fell down in the presence of the Lord 40 days and 40 nights because the Lord had threatened to destroy you.

“I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights like the first time. The Lord also listened to me on this occasion; He agreed not to annihilate you.

His father-in-law, the girl’s father, detained him, and he stayed with him for three days. They ate, drank, and spent the nights there.

Then they gave him some pressed figs and two clusters of raisins. After he ate he revived, for he hadn’t eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked 40 days and 40 nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.

So I have been made to inherit months of futility,and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

sitting among the graves,spending nights in secret places,eating the meat of pigs,and putting polluted broth in their bowls.

Now the Lord had appointed a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the fish three days and three nights.