Deuteronomy 9:25

New American Bible - revised edition

Those forty days, then, and forty nights, I lay prostrate before the Lord, because he had threatened to destroy you.

Cross References

Psalm 106:23

He would have decreed their destruction, had not Moses, his chosen one, Withstood him in the breach to turn back his destroying anger.

Exodus 34:28

So Moses was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights, without eating any food or drinking any water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.

Deuteronomy 9:16

I saw how you had sinned against the Lord, your God, by making for yourselves a molten calf. You had already turned aside from the way which the Lord had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then, as before, I lay prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no food, I drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed in the sight of the Lord, doing wrong and provoking him.