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Deut. 9:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

And Iz 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.

Ex. 32:10‑14• ¹⁰And now let me alone, that my anger may burn against them, and I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.
¹¹And Moses besought Jehovah his God, and said, Why, Jehovah, doth thy wrath burn against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?
¹²Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For misfortune he has brought them out, to slay them on the mountains, and to annihilate them from the face of the earth? Turn from the heat of thine anger, and repent of this evil against thy people!
¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thyself, and saidst to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall possess it for ever!
¹⁴And Jehovah repented of the evil that he had said he would do to his people. (Ex. 32:10‑14)

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I fell down.The transgressions of the people rendered this second forty days' fasting necessary to Moses.

Their pardon was indeed in some sense obtained before he ascended the mount; yet probably much of the time which he spent there was employed in supplication:

and when he descended the second time, with the tables of the law in his hands, the pardon was, as it were, ratified and sealed.

Deut. 9:9• ⁹when I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, and I abode in the mountain forty days and forty nights,--I ate no bread and drank no water,-- (Deut. 9:9)

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Ex. 34:28• ²⁸--And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water.--And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words. (Ex. 34:28)

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2 Sam. 12:16• ¹⁶And David besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth. (2 Sam. 12:16)

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Psa. 106:23• ²³And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them. (Psa. 106:23)

J. N. Darby Translation

And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights,—I ate no bread and drank no water,—because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.