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Bible Verses About 40 Days and 40 Nights
Find Bible verses about 40 days and 40 nights — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about 40 days and 40 nights?
The Bible addresses 40 days and 40 nights with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Jonah 1:17
“Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”
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Matthew 12:40
“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
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Genesis 7:4
“In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."”
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Luke 17:26
“As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.”
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Deuteronomy 11:21
“that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.”
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Genesis 7:12
“The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.”
Deuteronomy 9:11
“It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.”
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.”
Deuteronomy 9:18
“I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of...”
Hosea 9:7
“The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and b...”
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 the Mount of God.”
Job 2:13
“So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.”
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 34:8
“The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.”
Exodus 24:18
“Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.”
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