Deuteronomy 9:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate before the Lord when the Lord intended to destroy you,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So I fell down and lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you.

American Standard Version (1901)

So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.

Common English Bible

But I fell on my knees in the LORD’s presence forty days and forty nights, lying flat out, because the LORD planned on wiping you out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And so, I lay prostrate before the Lord for forty days and nights, as I humbly begged him, lest he destroy you, just as he had threatened to do.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had threatened.

Deuteronomy 9:25 Cross References

Psalm 106:23

Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

Exodus 34:28

He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Deuteronomy 9:16

Then I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God, by casting for yourselves an image; you had been quick to turn from the way that the Lord had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.