Deuteronomy 9:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ “So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ 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

²⁵ 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)

²⁵ 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

²⁵ 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

²⁵ 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

²⁵ 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

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

Deuteronomy 9:16

And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which 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 which you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.