When the time was up, they looked healthier and stronger than all those who had been eating the royal food.

But his answer was: "My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak." I am most happy, then, to be proud of my weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ's power over me.

Moses went on up the mountain into the cloud. There he stayed for forty days and nights.

Moses stayed there with the LORD forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant---the Ten Commandments.

I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets on which was written the covenant that the LORD had made with you. I stayed there forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything.

Then once again I lay face downward in the LORD's presence for forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything. I did this because you had sinned against the LORD and had made him angry.

After spending forty days and nights without food, Jesus was hungry.

where he stayed forty days, being tempted by Satan. Wild animals were there also, but angels came and helped him.

where he was tempted by the Devil for forty days. In all that time he ate nothing, so that he was hungry when it was over.

One day while Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, he led the flock across the desert and came to Sinai, the holy mountain.

All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD had come down on it in fire. The smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and all the people trembled violently.

"Remember the teachings of my servant Moses, the laws and commands which I gave him at Mount Sinai for all the people of Israel to obey.

"But before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes, I will send you the prophet Elijah.