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== 40 == Moses stayed on mount Sinai for 40 days after the giving of Torah. After the golden calf, he spend there another 40 days (and nights) The number of days the spies were in the land of Canaan Years in the desert—a generation Just as Mozes, the reign of king David and Solomon was also 40 years Days and nights of rain during the flood that occurred at the time of Noah Isaac's age at marriage to Rebecca Esau's age at marriage to his first two wives Number of days Jonah prophesies will pass before Nineveh is destroyed. (They repent) A mikveh must contain at least 40 se'ah (volume measurement) of water Number of years of the reign of David, Solomon, and the most righteous judges in the book of Judges Number of lashes for one who transgresses a commandment Number of days which the Torah was given Number of weeks a person is formed in their mother's womb Number of curses on Adam Minimum age at which a man could join the Sanhedrin
== 42 == Letters in one of God's Divine Names 42 cities that refugees (See Cities of Refuge) can go to when they kill accidentally There were 42 journeys of the sons of Israel through the desert 42 Juveniles mauled by 2 she bears at Bethel after identifying prophet Elisha as 'Baldy' (head uncovered)
== 50 == The 50th year of the sabbatical cycle was the Jubilee year
== 54 == The Torah is divided into 54 weekly Torah portions
== 60 == Considered the beginning of old age (Rashi, Leviticus 27:7)
== 70 == The 70 nations of the world (Generations of Noah) Members of the Sanhedrin Lifespan of King David Years between the destruction of the first and construction of the Second Temple Number of date-palms at Elim Number of members of Jacob's family who descended to Egypt Number of the Jewish elders led by Moshe
== 86 == The gematria of Elohim (אלהים)
== 130 == The age of Jochebed when she gave birth to Moses. The 130 shekels of silver was offered during the dedication of the altar.
== 137 == The number of years Ishmael, Levi and Amram (the father of Mozes) lived. See Gen. 25:17, Ex. 6:16 and 6:20.
It is the gematria of the word קבלה / Kabbalah. [See also the book: "137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession".]
== 176 == The amount of verses in Psalm 119, the longest Psalm in the entire Tanakh. The amount of verses found in Parashat Naso, the longest of the weekly Torah portions. The number of pages in the Gemara of Bava Batra, the most of any tractate in the Babylonian Talmud.
== 248 == Number of positive commandments Number of limbs (איברים) in man's body Number of words in the three paragraphs of the Shema (שמע)
== 314 == The gematria of Shaddai, one of God's names
== 318 == Number of men Abraham took to battle against the 4 kings (Genesis 14:14); also gematria of Eliezer (Abraham's servant)
== 365 == Length of the solar calendar (which has significance in Judaism) Number of prohibitive commandments Number of arteries in the body
== 374 == Total number of years the First Temple stood
== 400 == The amount of shekalim Abraham paid Ephron (Bereishit 23:15) The amount of men with Esav Years in Egypt
== 613 == The 613 commandments, the number of mitzvot in the Torah
== 620 == The total number of mitzvot, including those of Torah and Rabbinic origin.
== 600,000 == The number of Jewish men of military age that were present at mount Sinai when the giving of the Torah happened. The number of Jewish men needed for the blessing of "Chacham HaRazim".
== See also == Bible code, a purported set of secret messages encoded within the Torah. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement Chronology of the Bible Gematria Hebrew calendar Hebrew numerals Jewish symbolism Notarikon, a method of deriving a word by using each of its initial letters.
== Notes ==
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