Deuteronomy 9:25

New English Translation

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.

Cross References

Psalm 106:23

He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.

Exodus 34:28

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Deuteronomy 9:16

When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.