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Some pretty amazing stuff about the number 42, found mostly from Wikipedia:

The generations of Abraham to the Christ in the Gospel according to Matthew and the 42 generations of David to the Christ according to Luke. (Lk 3,23-38)

The Gentiles will trample the holy city during 42 months. (Rv 11,2)

The 42 months where it was given to the Beast to act and to blaspheme. (Rv 13,5)

The famine of the time of Elijah lasts 42 months. (Lk 4,25)

The little children mocked of the prophet Elisha. This one curses them and the fierce animals come out of the forest killing 42 of them. (2 K 2,24)

42 men of Beth-azmaveth were counted in the census of men of Israel upon return from exile (Ezra 2:24)

According to the Mesopotamian tradition, the surface of the Tower of Babel occupies 42 agrarian measures.

The Odes of Solomon are 42.

The number 42 OR “Forty and Two” is found 13 times in the Bible. This could be why we have 13 original colonies. And why there are 13 stripes on the US flag. Seven red and six white stripes on the US flag multiplied together equals 42.

On the whole, 42 books of the Bible use the number 7, whose eight in the NT.

The word star is used 42 times in the OT.

The number of the laws of cricket.

The jersey number of Jackie Robinson, which is the only number retired by all Major League Baseball teams. Although the number was retired in 1997, Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees, the last professional baseball player to wear number 42, continued to wear it until he retired at the end of the 2013 season. As of the 2014 season, no player will ever again wear the number 42 in Major League Baseball except on Jackie Robinson Day (April 15), when all uniformed personnel (players, managers, coaches, and umpires) wear the number.

42 is a film on the life of American baseball player Jackie Robinson.

"42" is an episode of Doctor Who, set in real time lasting approximately 42 minutes.

On the game show Jeopardy!, "Watson" the IBM supercomputer, has 42 "threads" in its avatar.

Buzz Lightyear's Star Cruiser is called 42. There is also a character named 42 in the Toy Story universe voiced by Joy Behar.

In Stargate Atlantis (season 4) "Quarantine", Colonel Sheppard states that Dr. McKay's password ends in 42 because "It's the ultimate answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything."

In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the Festival of the Ancestors on Planet Pasaana is held every 42 years. The film itself was released in 2019, 42 years after the 1977 original Star Wars film. By a "whole string of pretty meaningless coincidences"[34], 2019 is the same year that 42 was found to be the last possible natural number below 100 to be expressed as a sum of three cubes.

In the TV show Lost, 42 is one of the numbers used throughout the show for some of its mysteries.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has 42 illustrations.

Alice's attempts at multiplication (chapter two of Alice in Wonderland) work if one uses base 18 to write the first answer, and increases the base by threes to 21, 24, etc. (the answers working up to 4 × 12 = "19" in base 39), but "breaks" precisely when one attempts the answer to 4 × 13 in base 42, leading Alice to declare "oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!"

Rule Forty-two in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ("All persons more than a mile high to leave the court").

Rule 42 of the Code in the preface[29] to The Hunting of the Snark ("No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm").

In "fit the first" of The Hunting of the Snark the Baker had "forty-two boxes, all carefully packed, With his name painted clearly on each."

The White Queen announces her age as "one hundred and one, five months and a day", which—if the best possible date is assumed for the action of Through the Looking-Glass (e.g., a date is chosen such that the rollover from February to March is excluded from what would otherwise be an imprecise measurement of "five months and a day")—gives a total of 37,044 days. If the Red Queen, as part of the same chess set, is regarded as the same age, their combined age is 74,088 days, or 42 × 42 × 42.

The book 42: Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything (2011) examines Adams' choice of the number 42, and contains a compendium of some instances of the number in science, popular culture, and humour.

42 body parts of Osiris: In some traditions of the Osiris myth, Seth slays Osiris and distributes his 42 body parts all over Egypt. (In others, the number is fourteen and sixteen).

42 books in the core library: Clement of Alexandria states that the Egyptian temple library is divided into 42 "absolutely necessary" books that formed the stock of a core library. 36 contain the entire philosophy of the Egyptians which are memorized by the priests. While the remaining 6, are learned by the Pastophoroi (image-bearers).[17][18] (36 is like-wise a sacred number in Egyptian thought, related to time, in particular the thirty-six Decan stars and the thirty-six, 10-day "weeks" in the Egyptian year.[19]) The 42 books were not canonized like the Hebrew bible; they only supported and never replaced temple ritual. Hence, the destruction of the Egyptian temples and the cessation of the rituals ended Egyptian cultural continuity.[20]

42 negative confessions: In Egyptian mythology, there are 42 questions asked of persons making their journey through Death. Ma'at, a female personification, considered to be both maternal and a delivering force, is an Ancient Egyptian personification of physical and moral law, order, and truth. In the judgment scene described in the Egyptian and the Book of Pass (the Book of the Dead, which evolved from the Coffin Texts and the Pyramid Texts), there are 42 questions personifying the analysis of Ma'at. If the departed reasonably can give answers to the 42 questions, they have the potential to either be reincarnate, or if completely successful, reach the ultimate goal of becoming a Star, whereon, they can continue to give Light, and fuel Universal growth. These 42 questions correspond to the "42 Negative Confessions" from funerary texts such as the Papyrus of Ani.

There are 42 Stations of the Exodus which are the locations visited by the Israelites following their exodus from Egypt, recorded in Numbers 33, with variations also recorded in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy.

42 is the number with which God creates the Universe in Kabbalistic tradition. In Kabbalah, the most significant name is that of the En Sof (also known as "Ein Sof", "Infinite" or "Endless"), who is above the Sefirot (sometimes spelled "Sephirot").[21] The Forty-Two-Lettered Name contains four combined names which are spelled in Hebrew letters (spelled in letters = 42 letters), which is the name of Azilut (or "Atziluth" "Emanation"). While there are obvious links between the Forty-Two Lettered Name of the Babylonian Talmud and the Kabbalah's Forty-Two Lettered Name, they are probably not identical because of the Kabbalah's emphasis on numbers. The Kabbalah also contains a Forty-Five Lettered Name and a Seventy-Two Lettered Name.

The number 42 appears in various contexts in Christianity. There are 42 generations (names) in the Gospel of Matthew's version of the Genealogy of Jesus; it is prophesied that for 42 months the Beast will hold dominion over the Earth (Revelation 13:5); 42 men of Beth-azmaveth were counted in the census of men of Israel upon return from exile (Ezra 2:24); God sent bears to maul 42 of the teenage boys who mocked Elisha for his baldness (2 Kings 2:23), etc.

In Judaism, the number (in the Babylonian Talmud, compiled 375 AD to 499 AD) of the "Forty-Two Lettered Name" ascribed to God. Rab (or Rabhs), a 3rd-century source in the Talmud stated "The Forty-Two Lettered Name is entrusted only to him who is pious, meek, middle-aged, free from bad temper, sober, and not insistent on his rights". [Source: Talmud Kidduschin 71a, Translated by Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein]. Maimonides felt that the original Talmudic Forty-Two Lettered Name was perhaps composed of several combined divine names [Maimonides "Moreh"]. The apparently unpronouncable Tetragrammaton provides the backdrop from the Twelve-Lettered Name and the Forty-Two Lettered Name of the Talmud.[citation needed] In Judaism, by some traditions the Torah scroll is written with no fewer than 42 lines per column, based on the journeys of Israel.[22] In the present day, 42 lines is the most common standard,[23] but various traditions remain in use (see Sefer Torah). The Gutenberg Bible is also known as the "42-line Bible", as the book contained 42 lines per page.

42 is the atomic mass of one of the naturally occurring stable isotopes of calcium.

The angle rounded to whole degrees for which a rainbow appears (the critical angle).

As determined by the Babylonians, in 79 years Mars orbits the Sun almost exactly 42 times.

Messier object M42, a magnitude 5.0 diffuse nebula in the constellation Orion, also known as the Orion Nebula. (also represented as Osiris)

The New General Catalogue object NGC 42, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus.

In January 2004, asteroid 2001 DA42 was given the permanent name 25924 Douglasadams, for the author Douglas Adams who popularized the number 42 and died in 2001. Brian G. Marsden, the director of the Minor Planet Center and the secretary for the naming committee, remarked that, with even his initials in the provisional designation, "This was sort of made for him, wasn't it?".

Kepler-42, a red dwarf in the constellation Cygnus which hosts the three smallest exoplanets found to date.

42 Isis, a large main-belt asteroid measuring about 100 km in diameter.

The sigil which opens the portal to Heaven is a design which is known as Metaron's Cube.

After Metatron expelled all the angels and locked the Gates of Heaven, he created a piece of spell work that allowed him to come and go from Heaven to Earth.[1] The spell simply requires a specific sigil to be drawn. Once done, it will create a doorway into Heaven. It can also be opened from the Heaven side by simply opening a door marked 42.

Many fascinating, sacred geometrical patterns are considered to be derived from the Flower of Life such as: the Seed of Life, the Fruit of Life, the Egg of Life, Metatron’s Cube, and the Kabbalah or Tree of Life.

42 is the sum of the numbers on a pair of dice.

There were many others listed on Wikipedia and other sources.