He was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
When I went up on the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant which YHWH made with y’all, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.
I fell down before YHWH, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread or drink water, because of all y’all’s sin which y’all committed, doing what was evil in YHWH’s sight and provoking ʜɪᴍ to anger.
He proclaimed and said, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything. Do not let them eat or drink water.
“You go and gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and y’all fast for me. Y’all must not eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”