'Forty Years' in the Bible

for the man, on whom this sign of healing had been done, was more than forty years old.

And, forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him, in the wilderness of mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.

This man led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

But God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it has been written in a book of the prophets, 'Did ye offer to Me slain beasts and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

And for about the time of forty years He bore them as a nursing father in the wilderness.

And afterward they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul, a son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years;