When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.
And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.
And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.
With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues.
With their forty silver bases, two under every board.
And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.
And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues.
With their forty silver bases, two bases for every board.
No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.
I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.
For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:
And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.
And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you.
In the four angles there were spaces walled in, forty cubits long and thirty wide; the four were of the same size.
The children of Bani, six hundred and forty-two.
The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.
The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.
The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.
The children of Pashhur, a thousand, two hundred and forty-seven.
The number of all the people together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty,
They had seven hundred and thirty-six horses, two hundred and forty-five transport beasts,
The children of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five.
If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.
And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.
And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.
And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.
And after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters:
And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.
Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,
And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?
When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.
In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!
And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.
And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.
I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to make a search through the land; and the account which I gave him was in keeping with his desire.
All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.
About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho.
For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years.
Then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth, and was not able to say it in the right way; then they took him and put him to death at the crossing-places of Jordan; and at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites were put to death.
And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
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