Moses on Sinai
40 daysA prolonged fast during covenant revelation.
Moses fasts for forty days and nights while receiving the Law on Mount Sinai. This fast is associated with direct divine encounter and covenant formation rather than repentance or crisis, and it establishes fasting as preparation for revelation.
Scripture
28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
9 When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.