Deuteronomy 9:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

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.

2 Kings 6:22

He answered, “No! Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink, and let them go to their master.”

Exodus 24:12

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there; I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”

Exodus 24:15

Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 31:18

When God finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 32:1

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

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.

Matthew 4:2

He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was famished.

Galatians 4:24

Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One woman, in fact, is Hagar, from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery.

Deuteronomy 8:3

He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 9:11

At the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:15

“So I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was ablaze; the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

Deuteronomy 9:18

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.

Hebrews 9:4

In it stood the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which there were a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;