Forty Days?

Its significance in the scriptures.

Genesis 7: 4 It rained for 40 days during the great Flood.

“For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

Genesis 50: 2, 3 It took the Egyptians 40 days to prepare a body for burial.

So the physicians embalmed Israel; forty days were required for it, for so many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

Exodus 24: 18 Moses was on Mount Sinai 40 days receiving the Law.

And Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Numbers 13: 25 The 12 spies spent 40 days spying out Canaan before returning to Moses.

At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

I Samuel 17: 16 For forty days Goliath and the Philistines taunted Israel before David came.

For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

I Kings 19: 8 After receiving sustenance from God, Elijah marched 40 days without food.

And 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.

Jonah 3: 4 When Jonah began preaching to Nineveh, God gave them only 40 days to repent.

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he cried, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

Matthew 4: 2 (and others) Jesus fasted for forty days in the Perean desert.

And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry.

Acts 1: 3 After his resurrection, Jesus remained for forty more days, and then ascended to God.

To them he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.