The priests put on haircloths, and they caused the little children to lie prostrate before the temple of the Lord, and the altar of the Lord they covered with haircloth. Judith 4:8
Trivia: Whose head was cut off by Judith and hung on a wall?
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than a few weeks.
The children of Israel did eat manna forty years. Exodus 16:35
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years. Numbers 14:33
He made them wander in the wilderness forty years. Numbers 32:13
Walking through this great wilderness: these forty years. Deuteronomy 2:7
Remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years. Deuteronomy 8:2
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Deuteronomy 29:5
The children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness. Joshua 5:6
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. Nehemiah 9:21
I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness. Amos 2:10
Google maps says the journey from the Giza Plateau to Jerusalem is 742 kilometers and would take 152 hours to walk. (About 19 days with 8 hours of walking each day.)
