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Want to know what the Bible says about Forty? Here are 22 Bible verses about Forty from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Genesis 7:17 NIV
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
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Genesis 8:6 NIV
After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
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Genesis 50:3 NIV
taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
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Exodus 24:18 NIV
Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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Exodus 34:28 NIV
Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
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Deuteronomy 9:9 NIV
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.
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Deuteronomy 9:25 NIV
I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you.
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1 Kings 19:8 NIV
So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
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Numbers 13:25 NIV
At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
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Jonah 3:4 NIV
Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
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Matthew 4:2 NIV
After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
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Acts 1:3 NIV
After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
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Ezekiel 4:6 NIV
“After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.
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Exodus 16:35 NIV
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
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Numbers 14:34 NIV
For forty years —one year for each of the forty days you explored the land —you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’
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Judges 3:11 NIV
So the land had peace for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.
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Judges 5:31 NIV
“So may all your enemies perish, Lord!
    But may all who love you be like the sun
    when it rises in its strength.”
Then the land had peace forty years.
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Judges 8:28 NIV
Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon’s lifetime, the land had peace forty years.
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Ezekiel 29:11 NIV
The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.
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Ezekiel 29:13 NIV
“‘Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered.
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