Deuteronomy 9:9

Good News Translation

I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets on which was written the covenant that the Lord had made with you. I stayed there forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:8

Elijah got up, ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to walk forty days to Sinai, the holy mountain.

2 Kings 6:22

“No,” he answered. “Not even soldiers you had captured in combat would you put to death. Give them something to eat and drink, and let them return to their king.”

Exodus 24:12

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up the mountain to me, and while you are here, I will give you two stone tablets which contain all the laws that I have written for the instruction of the people.”

Exodus 24:15

Moses went up Mount Sinai, and a cloud covered it.

Exodus 24:18

Moses went on up the mountain into the cloud. There he stayed for forty days and nights.

Exodus 31:18

When God had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two stone tablets on which God himself had written the commandments.

Exodus 32:1

When the people saw that Moses had not come down from the mountain but was staying there a long time, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “We do not know what has happened to this man Moses, who led us out of Egypt; so make us a god to lead us.”

Exodus 34:28

Moses stayed there with the Lord forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

Matthew 4:2

After spending forty days and nights without food, Jesus was hungry.

Galatians 4:24

These things can be understood as a figure: the two women represent two covenants. The one whose children are born in slavery is Hagar, and she represents the covenant made at Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 8:3

He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the Lord says.

Deuteronomy 9:11

Yes, after those forty days and nights the Lord gave me the two stone tablets on which he had written the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:15

“So I turned and went down the mountain, carrying the two stone tablets on which the covenant was written. Flames of fire were coming from the mountain.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then once again I lay face downward in the Lord's presence for forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything. I did this because you had sinned against the Lord and had made him angry.

Hebrews 9:4

In it were the gold altar for the burning of incense and the Covenant Box all covered with gold and containing the gold jar with the manna in it, Aaron's stick that had sprouted leaves, and the two stone tablets with the commandments written on them.