And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

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.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

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.

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

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.

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.

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.

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:

Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

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 ten days.

And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.