Flood Stories from Around the World
For 40 days and nights, floodwaters came from the heavens and from the deeps, until the highest mountains were covered.
After 40 days, Noah sent out a raven, which kept flying until the waters had dried up.
40 Representing the full transformation
In his speech, he explains that while 40 days is sufficient for an individual’s transformation, 40 years is needed for the transformation of a collective, such as a culture or society.
Genesis 7:12: It rained for 40 days and 40 nights during the flood.
Genesis 7:17: The floodwaters prevailed on the earth for 40 days.
Exodus 24:18: Moses stayed on Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights while receiving the Ten Commandments.
Exodus 34:28: Moses fasted for 40 days and 40 nights without food and water.
Deuteronomy 9:9: Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights interceding for the Israelites after the golden calf incident.
Numbers 13:25: The spies explored the land of Canaan for 40 days.
1 Kings 19:8: Elijah traveled for 40 days and 40 nights to Mount Horeb.
Become who you desire in 40 days
In his speech, he explains that while 40 days is sufficient for an individual's transformation, 40 years is needed for the transformation of a collective, such as a culture or society.
Nana Beaujo holds on to a great big log
2:42In the Bible, it says it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, and they call it a deluge.
The rains started to pour down for 40 days and 40 nights.
After 40 days and 40 nights, Nana Beaujo was still holding on to that great big log out in the open waters, but he was tired, he was exhausted, and he started to begin to slip off the log.
If we don't have access to that, we'd die long before 40 days.
Numerology
40 - Rebirth (40 days in the Dessert - 40 Years Moses)
In his speech, he explains that while 40 days is sufficient for an individual’s transformation, 40 years is needed for the transformation of a collective, such as a culture or society.
Pentacost
The account given in Acts of the Apostles says that Jesus remained with the apostles for 40 days, whereas the account in the Gospel of Luke makes no clear distinction between the events of Easter Sunday and the Ascension.
Jesus’ Initiation
After his baptism, Jesus is said to have spent 40 days and nights fasting in the Judean desert, during which time he was tempted by Satan.
Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness, where he was tempted.
Goliath
For 40 days, he challenged the Israelites to send out a champion to fight him, but they were all terrified.
The Nephilim
The spies returned to Moses after 40 days and gave a good report about the land—“It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit” (Numbers 13:27).
Sumerian Cities
L1+N1 has:) 124 years and 40 days
Sumerian King List
ti-ri-ga u4 4(u) i3-ak en: Tiriga, 40 days he ruled;330.
mu-bi n u4 4(u) ib2-ak en: the years: 40 days they ruled.332.
mu-bi 2(gesz2) 5(disz) mu 4(u) u4 ib2-ak en: the years: 125, 40 days, they ruled,404'.
Waters decreased
[5] And the waters decreased continually until the tenth 10th month: in the tenth 10th month, on the first 1st day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.[6] And it came to pass at the end of forty 40 days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:[7] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro moves around until the waters were dried up from off the earth.[8] Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;[9] But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.[10] And he stayed yet other seven 7 days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;[11] And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.[12] And he stayed yet other seven 7 days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.[13] And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first 601 years, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.[14] And in the second 2nd month, on the seven and twentieth 27th day of the month, was the earth dried.[15] And God spake unto Noah, saying,[16] Go forth of the ark, thou you, and thy your wife, and thy your sons, and thy your sons' wives with thee you.[17] Bring forth with thee you every living thing that is with thee you, of all pure flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.[18] And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:[19] Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.[20] And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD Enlil; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.[21] And the LORD Enlil smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD Enlil said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.[22] While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Noah and The flood
[1] And the LORD Enlil said unto Noah, Come thou you and all thy your house into the ark; for thee you have I seen righteous before me in this generation bloodline.[2] Of every clean beast thou you shalt take to thee you by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.[3] Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.[4] For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty 40 days and forty 40 nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.[5] And Noah did according unto all that the the LORD Enlil commanded him.[6] And Noah was six hundred 600 years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.[7] And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.[8] Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,[9] There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as GOD Anu had commanded Noah.[10] And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.[11] In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month (77 days?), the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the the windows of heaven portals were opened.[12] And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.[13] In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;[14] They, and every original beast after his kind, and all the pure/original cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.[15] And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.[16] And they that went in, went in male and female of all pure flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.[17] And the flood was forty 40 days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.[18] And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.[19] And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.[20] Fifteen cubits 6.75 meters upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.