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Forty

FORTY ;

Remarkable coincidences in the number

DAYS

• Of rain, at the time of the flood
- Ge 7:17
• Of flood, before sending forth the raven
- Ge 8:6
• For embalming
- Ge 50:3
• Of fasting
• By Moses
- Ex 24:18; 34:28; De 9:9,25
• By Elijah
- 1Ki 19:8
• By spies in the land of promise
- Nu 13:25
• Of probation, given to the Ninevites
- Jon 3:4
• By Jesus
- Mt 4:2
• Christ's stay after the resurrection
- Ac 1:3
• Symbolical
- Eze 4:6

YEARS

• Wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness
- Ex 16:35; Nu 14:34
• Peace in Israel
- Jud 3:11; 5:31; 8:28
• Egypt to be desolated
- Eze 29:11
• To be restored after
- Eze 29:13

STRIPES

• Administered in punishing criminals
- De 25:3; 2Co 11:24
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