Forty I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, Gen. 7:4. children of Israel did eat manna forty years, Ex. 16:35. in the mount forty days and forty nights, Ex. 24:18 (Deut. 9:9). shall wander in the wilderness forty years, Num. 14:33. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed, Deut. 25:3. forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown, Jonah 3:4. fasted forty days and forty nights, Matt. 4:2. Being forty days tempted of the devil, Luke 4:2. being seen of them forty days, Acts 1:3. five times received I forty stripes, 2Â Cor. 11:24.