In Sacred Scripture, the number forty is a sign of penance:
- God made it rain for forty days and forty nights in the days of Noah (Gen 7:4 - by the way they only ate fish on the ark, not meat)
- Moses spent forty days fasting on Mount Sinai with God (Exodus 24:18)
- The People of Israel people wandered forty years traveling to the Promised Land (Numbers 14:33)
- Elijah spent forty days and forty nights walking to Mount Horeb (1 Kings 19:8)
- Jonah prophesied forty days of judgment for Nineveh to repent (Jonah 3:4).
- Jesus fasted for forty days days in the wilderness, and was tempted by the devil (Matthew 4:1-2, Mark 1:12-13, Luke 4:1-2)
- Jesus was also in the tomb for about forty hours.
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