for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
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- KJV Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
- BSB where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
- NKJV being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.
- NASB for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
- NLT where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry.
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- Exod 34:28He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- Heb 4:15For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
- Heb 2:18For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
- Deut 9:9When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
- 1 Kgs 19:8He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.
- John 4:6Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
- Matt 4:2When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
- Deut 9:18I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
- 1 Sam 17:16The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
- Esth 4:16“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
- Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
- Matt 21:18Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
- Deut 9:25So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
- Jonah 3:7He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
- Exod 24:18Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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