[Sca-cooks] 40 Days - was: a Lenten question-

[Terry Decker]

7 and 40 are the most common numbers in the Bible.  7 is "God's number".  40 
is the "number of probation or trial."  At least, according to Biblical 
numerology.

10 is the number of completion or perfection in the Kabbala, where you 
return to the number 1.  Forty represents "four-fold perfection" or a 
movement from the material to the spiritual.

Bear


> Forty days and forty nights does show up multiple
> times, in the flood, and the after the Exodus when the
> hewbrews were wandering around trying to find the
> promised land for forty years.  And also Lent.  It is
> a little confusing.
>
> Aurelia