40 — Person: Moses

Number: 40

Person: Moses

Action: Parting the Red Sea (staff stretched out)

Object: Staff

Scripture connection: Exodus 14:21 — Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land. Deuteronomy 34:7 — Moses was 120 years old; he had led Israel forty years in the wilderness.

Memory hook: 40 = forty years in the wilderness; forty days on Sinai. The staff, the sea, the deliverer — the number 40 is Moses and the exodus.

Why this number? 40 years wilderness; Exodus 14. Moses parts the Red Sea with the staff; the number 40 is the years and the deliverance.