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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• ¹⁰Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.
¹¹And Moses besought Jehovah his God and said, Jehovah, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
¹²Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel , thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.
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 he would destroy them,{HR}Had not Moses stood in the breach before him,{HR}To turn away his wrath from destroying. (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.

W. Kelly 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.

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)