Moses was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; he did not eat food or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.
Deuteronomy 9:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘I fell down in the presence of the Lord for forty days and forty nights because the Lord had threatened to destroy you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So I fell down and lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you. American Standard Version (1901) So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you. Common English Bible But I fell on my knees in the LORD’s presence forty days and forty nights, lying flat out, because the LORD planned on wiping you out. Catholic Public Domain Version And so, I lay prostrate before the Lord for forty days and nights, as I humbly begged him, lest he destroy you, just as he had threatened to do. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had threatened. |
Moses was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; he did not eat food or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.
I saw how you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord had commanded for you.
I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and angering him.