Deuteronomy 9:18 BSB

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

BSB

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ASV

And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

KJV

And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I fell down before the Lord, as at the first - Moses interceded for the people before he came down from the mountain the first time Exo 32:11-13. This intercession is only briefly alluded to in this verse. Afterward he spent another 40 days on the mountain in fasting and prayer to obtain a complete restitution of the covenant Exo 34:28. It is this second forty days, and the intercession of Moses made therein (compare Exo 34:9), that is more particularly brought forward here and in Deu 9:25-29.

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וָֽאֶתְנַפַּל֩	va.'et.na.Pal	and I prostrated myself	H5307 →
לִפְנֵ֨י	lif.Nei	<to> before	H6440 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
כָּרִאשֹׁנָ֗ה	ka.ri.sho.Nah	like the former [time]	H7223 →
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים	'ar.ba.'Im	forty	H705 →
יוֹם֙	yOm	day[s]	H3117 →
וְאַרְבָּעִ֣ים	ve.'ar.ba.'Im	and forty	H705 →
לַ֔יְלָה	Lay.lah	night[s]	H3915 →
לֶ֚חֶם	Le.chem	food	H3899 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
אָכַ֔לְתִּי	'a.Khal.ti	I ate	H398 →
וּמַ֖יִם	u.Ma.yim	and water	H4325 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
שָׁתִ֑יתִי	sha.Ti.ti	I drank	H8354 →
עַ֤ל	'al	on	H5921 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
חַטַּאתְכֶם֙	cha.tat.Khem	sin your	H2403 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
חֲטָאתֶ֔ם	cha.ta.Tem	you had sinned	H2398 →
לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת	la.'a.Sot	by doing	H6213 →
הָרַ֛ע	ha.Ra'	the evil	H7451 →
בְּעֵינֵ֥י	be.'ei.Nei	in [the] eyes of	H5869 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
לְהַכְעִיסֽוֹ׃	le.hakh.'i.So	to provoke to anger him	H3707 →

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Through
Exodus 34:28
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 9:25
  So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 34:1
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
- Deuteronomy 4:13
  He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
- Exodus 31:18
  When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
Through
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.…
leads to
- Exodus 34:28
  So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 24:18
  Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Psalms 106:23
So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 9:13–14
  The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
Through
Deuteronomy 10:10
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 9:18–19
  Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you…

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