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Exodus 34:28

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¶ And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

And he was there with the LORD {H3068} forty {H705} days {H3117} and forty {H705} nights {H3915}; he did neither eat {H398} bread {H3899}, nor drink {H8354} water {H4325}. And he wrote {H3789} upon the tables {H3871} the words {H1697} of the covenant {H1285}, the ten {H6235} commandments {H1697}.

Moshe was there with ADONAI forty days and forty nights, during which time he neither ate food nor drank water. [ADONAI] wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words.

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.

And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

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Cross-References

  • Exodus 34:1 (8 votes)

    ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon [these] tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

  • Exodus 24:18 (7 votes)

    And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

  • Deuteronomy 4:13 (7 votes)

    And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

  • Deuteronomy 9:18 (6 votes)

    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.

  • Deuteronomy 9:25 (6 votes)

    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.

  • Exodus 32:16 (5 votes)

    And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.

  • Exodus 31:18 (5 votes)

    And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.