So He commanded their extermination, had not Moses, His chosen one, stood in the breach before Him, to turn His wrath from destroying them.
Deuteronomy 9:25 - Tree of Life Version “So I threw myself down before Adonai those 40 days and 40 nights, because Adonai had said He would 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. |
So He commanded their extermination, had not Moses, His chosen one, stood in the breach before Him, to turn His wrath from destroying them.
So he stayed there with Adonai for 40 days and 40 nights, and he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant: the Ten Words.
When I looked, you had indeed sinned against Adonai your God—you had made yourselves a metal calf. So quickly you had turned aside from the way Adonai had commanded you!
“Then I fell down before Adonai like the first time, for 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water—because of all your sin that you committed, doing evil in Adonai’s sight, provoking Him to anger.