אַרְבָּעִים

And after he had become the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

…suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”

…and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

…30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

…taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

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

…with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

…and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

…with forty silver bases to put under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

…and forty silver bases—two bases under each frame.

And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.

…those registered to the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

…those registered to the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

…those registered to the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.

…those registered to the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.

…and his division numbers 46,500.

…and his division numbers 45,650.

…and his division numbers 40,500.

…and his division numbers 41,500.

After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

These were the clans of Reuben, and their registration numbered 43,730.

These were the clans of Gad, and their registration numbered 40,500.

These were the clans of Benjamin, and their registration numbered 45,600.

These were the clans of Naphtali, and their registration numbered 45,400.

The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.

At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.

Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.

The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands.

In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.

Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.

Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.