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.

"So I lay face downward in the LORD's presence those forty days and nights, because I knew that he was determined to destroy you.

I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command.

Elijah got up, ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to walk forty days to Sinai, the holy mountain.

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.

On his way back to the city early next morning, Jesus was hungry.

The next day, as they were coming back from Bethany, Jesus was hungry.

Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by the trip, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

Since the children, as he calls them, are people of flesh and blood, Jesus himself became like them and shared their human nature. He did this so that through his death he might destroy the Devil, who has the power over death,

For it is clear that it is not the angels that he helps. Instead, he helps the descendants of Abraham.