And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
“I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the Lord listened to me that time also. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.
Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger.
When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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