‘I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights like the first time. The Lord also listened to me on this occasion; he agreed not to annihilate you.
Moses was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; he did not eat food or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.
Then the Lord said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to give their ancestors.”