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Matthew 4:2

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And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
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  1. Deuteronomy 9:18Rank 1 from verse 2
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    18And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

  2. Exodus 34:28Rank 2 from verse 2
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    28And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

  3. 1 Kings 19:8Rank 3 from verse 2
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    8And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

  4. Luke 4:2Rank 4 from verse 2
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    2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

  5. Deuteronomy 9:9Rank 5 from verse 2
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    9When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

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Matthew 4:2

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fasted

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of fast, meaning to abstain from food for a time.

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1THEN was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

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3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

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