• forty is often used for time periods, forty days or forty years, which separate "two distinct epochs". Rain fell for "forty days and forty nights" during...
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  • "Forty Days and Forty Nights" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1956. Called "a big, bold record", it spent six weeks in the Billboard R&B chart...
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  • Forty Days and Forty Nights (Turkish: Kırk gün kırk gece) is a 1953 Turkish film directed by Esat Özgül. Ismail Dümbüllü Nimet Alp Temel Karamahmut Mücap...
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  • 53 days. The change of the days by Werfel "called up biblical associations: the flood lasted forty days and nights; Moses spent forty days and nights on...
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  • the cover of "Thirty Days" by Chuck Berry, 1955 "Forty Days and Forty Nights", a song by Muddy Waters, 1956 "Forty Days and Nights", a song by the Rankin...
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    wilderness, and in this verse he fasts. In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was...
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    Matthew 4:3 (category Food and drink in Christianity)
    temptation of Christ by Satan. Jesus has been fasting for forty days and forty nights, and in this verse the devil gives Christ his first temptation by...
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    Monastery of the Temptation (category Buildings and structures in Jericho)
    Jesus spent forty days and forty nights fasting and meditating while he was tempted by Satan. It currently serves as a tourist attraction and its land is...
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    "Instruction") by angels while he was on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights. The chronology given in Jubilees is based on multiples of seven. The...
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  • "Forty Days and Nights" is a song recorded by Canadian music group The Rankin Family. It was released in 1996 as the third single from their fourth studio...
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    Blues charts including "Sugar Sweet" in 1955 and "Trouble No More", "Forty Days and Forty Nights", and "Don't Go No Farther" in 1956. 1956 also saw the...
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  • Had" – 3:03 "Walkin' Thru The Park" – 3:07 Side B (studio) "Forty Days and Forty Nights" (Bernard Roth) – 3:04 "Standin' Round Crying" – 4:01 "I'm Ready"...
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  • The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai (category Islam and Judaism)
    He took refuge in a cave, where he prayed continuously for forty days and forty nights. When Simon saw the Arab forces approaching, he expressed sadness...
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  • Recordings issued a vinyl edition with one additional track, "Forty Days and Forty Nights." "Warm Rock" - 2:41 "Call Me Up, Pt. 2" - 4:06 "Never Be Alone"...
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  • predict an imminent disaster where it will rain for forty days and forty nights. They tell a boy and girl who subsequently help save the animals in a zoo...
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    tradition for forty days and forty nights. For Düğün çorbası, the meat pulp is cut into small pieces and boiled with a head of onions and grated carrots...
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  • suffering which has taken place, to follow Christ's fasting for forty days and forty nights and suffering at the Cross. There is a 50 day period after the...
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    Lent (redirect from Great Forty days)
    period of forty days and forty nights...merited to extinguish the prolonged and severe dryness of the whole world, doing so with a stream of rain and steeping...
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  • A legend says that once he remained for forty days and forty nights in prayer, abstaining from eating and sleeping. He died at a great age. The Sayings...
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  • unspecific number, as in the Hebrew Bible's "forty days and forty nights", Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. This usage is sometimes...
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  • to fast and pray for forty days and forty nights; it was during this time that Satan tried to tempt him (cf. Matthew 4:1–3). The forty day and night fasts...
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    Arthur Fadden (category Australian Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    Outlook, titled "Forty days and forty nights". Fadden suffered from ill health during his retirement, including a bout of hepatitis and a vision defect...
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    York: Forty Days and Forty Nights". New Yorker. May 5, 1934. "The Long Fast Finished. A Meal That Amazed Dr. Tanner's Attendants. Milk, Watermelon, And Half...
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    Philo says that Moses was "without the body", during his stay of forty days and forty nights in the mount 2 Corinthians 12:7 NKJV MacDonald, Margaret (2007)...
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  • recorded by Joe Seneca in 1960, as the B-side to his single,"Forty Days and Forty Nights" In 1976, The Beach Boys recorded a version of it, along with...
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  • Thing" (Dixon) – 2:37 "Gypsy Woman" – 2:31 "Rollin' and Tumblin'" – 2:57 "Forty Days and Forty Nights" (Roth) – 2:50 "Little Geneva" – 2:45 "You Can't Lose...
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  • the ordinary man in his nature. He lived for forty days and forty nights on the mount without eating and drinking (Deut. ix. 9), but this was owing to...
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  • God calls Moses up the mountain again, where he remains for forty days and forty nights, after which he returns, bearing the set of stone tablets. God...
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    Shavuot (category Tabernacle and Temples in Jerusalem)
    Hebrew word ḥalav (חלב‎) is 40, corresponding to the forty days and forty nights that Moses spent on Mount Sinai before bringing down the Torah. According...
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    Tommy James (category Tommy James and the Shondells members)
    the song and began pressing copies of it, speeding it up slightly in the process. Sales of the bootleg were estimated at 80,000 in ten days. It became...
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