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Genesis 7:12

Forty is a significant biblical number — forty years in the wilderness, forty days of Jesus' testing, forty days of Moses on the mountain. It represents a complete and thorough period of testing or judgment.

Memory phrase: Forty days of rain.

Talk about it: What would it feel like to be on a boat for forty days and forty nights?

Prayer: God, even in the longest storms, You are with me.

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