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FORTY

Remarkable coincidences in the number

Passages on this topic · 22

  • Genesis 7:17

    The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

  • Genesis 8:6

    At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

  • Genesis 50:3

    Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

  • Exodus 16:35

    The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

  • Exodus 24:18

    Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Exodus 34:28

    He 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.

  • Numbers 13:25

    They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

  • Numbers 14:34

    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.’

  • Deuteronomy 9:9

    When 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.

  • Deuteronomy 9:25

    So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.

  • Deuteronomy 25:3

    He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

  • Judges 3:11

    The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

  • Judges 5:31

    “So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

  • Judges 8:28

    So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

  • 1 Kings 19:8

    He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

  • Ezekiel 4:6

    “Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.

  • Ezekiel 29:11

    No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

  • Ezekiel 29:13

    For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;

  • Jonah 3:4

    Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

  • Matthew 4:2

    When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

  • Acts 1:3

    To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:24

    Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.

From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).

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