Deuteronomy 9:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

David therefore pleaded with God for the child; David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.

1 Kings 19:8

He got up and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night. He did not eat bread or drink water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

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

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

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, my Lord, I pray, let my Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Deuteronomy 10:10

“I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. And once again the Lord listened to me. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:17

So I took hold of the two tablets and flung them from my two hands, smashing them before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:25

“Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate before the Lord when the Lord intended to destroy you,

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.