Where was 40 mentioned in the Bible?

Answer 1

In the King James version

The word - forty - appears 157 times

In the Bok of Genesis alone it appears 15 times - sometimes in combination with other numbers.....

# Gen 5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: # Gen 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. # Gen 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. # Gen 7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. # Gen 8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: # Gen 18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. # Gen 18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. # Gen 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. # Gen 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: # Gen 32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. # Gen 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. # Gen 50:3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and

Answer 2

The number 40 is mentioned in The Bible in various contexts. Some notable instances include:

1. The 40 days and nights of rain during the Great Flood in Genesis 7:12.
2. Moses spending 40 days and nights on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments in Exodus 24:18.
3. The Israelites wandering in the wilderness for 40 years as punishment for their disobedience in Numbers 14:33-34.

These are just a few examples, but there are other references to the number 40 throughout the Bible.