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Fasting in Scripture
    Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without
    eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words
    of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
•  Deuteronomy 9:18
    Then once again I fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and
    forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin
    you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and so
    provoking him to anger. (NIV)
•   2 Samuel 12: 16-17
    David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and went into his house
    and spent the nights lying on the ground. 17 The elders of his
    household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he
    refused, and he would not eat any food with them. (NIV)
•   Nehemiah 1:4
    When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I
    mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven. (NIV)
•   Ezra 8:21-23
    There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might
    humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us
    and our children, with all our possessions. I was ashamed to ask the
    king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road,
    because we had told the king, "The gracious hand of our God is on
    everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who
    forsake him." So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he
    answered our prayer. (NIV)
•   Ezra 10:6
    Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the
    room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he was there, he ate no food
    and drank no water, because he continued to mourn over the
    unfaithfulness of the exiles. (NIV)
•   Esther 4:16
    "Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do
    not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as
    you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is
    against the law. And if I perish, I perish." (NIV)
•   Psalms 69:10
    When I weep and fast,   I must endure scorn. (NIV)
•   Isaiah 58:6-8
    Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of
    injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and
    break every yoke.  Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to
    provide the poor wanderer with shelter – when you see the naked, to
    clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?  Then
    your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly
    appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the
    Lord will be your rear guard. (NIV)
•    Daniel 9:3
    So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and
    petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. (NIV)
•    Daniel 10:3
    I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no
    lotions at all until the three weeks were over. (NIV)
•    Joel 2:15
    Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.
    (NIV)
•    Matthew 4:2
    After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. (NIV)
•    Matthew 6:16
    "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they
    disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth,
    they have received their reward in full." (NIV)
•    Matthew 9:15
    Jesus answered, "How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while
    he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken
    from them; then they will fast." (NIV)
•    Luke 2:37
    And then was a widow until she was eighty-four.[a] She never left the
    temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. (NIV)
•    Acts 13:3
    So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them
    and sent them off. (NIV)
•    Acts 14:23
    Paul and Barnabas appointed elders[a] for them in each church and,
    with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had
    put their trust. (NIV)

Islamic Scriptures
•        Qur’an: Chapter 2, 183
    O who believe, fasting is decreed for you as it was decreed for those
    before you: perchance you will guard yourselves… The month of
    Ramadan is the month in which the Koran was sent down, a guidance
    for the people, and clear verses of guidance and criterion.