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Complete Jewish Bible

Deuteronomy 9:25

"So I fell down before Adonai for those forty days and nights; and I lay there; because Adonai had said he would destroy you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Forty;   Humility;   Intercession;   Israel;   Moses;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Days;   Forty Days;   Periods and Numbers;   Prayer;   Secret Prayer;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;   Jesus Christ;   Number;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Intercession;   Mediator;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Prayer;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Law, Reading from the;   Prayer;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
"And I lay prostrate before Yahweh through forty days, and through forty nights I prostrated myself, because Yahweh intended to kill you.
English Standard Version
"So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you.
New Century Version
The Lord had said he would destroy you, so I threw myself down in front of him for those forty days and forty nights.
New English Translation
I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.
Amplified Bible
"So I fell down and lay face down before the LORD forty days and nights because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
New American Standard Bible
"So I fell down before the LORD for the forty days and nights, which I did because the LORD said He would destroy you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then I fell downe before ye Lorde fourtie dayes & fourtie nightes, as I fell downe before, because ye Lord had said, that he woulde destroy you.
Legacy Standard Bible
"So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and the forty nights, which I did because Yahweh had said He would destroy you.
Contemporary English Version
After you had made the idol in the shape of a calf, the Lord said he was going to destroy you. So I bowed down in front of the sacred tent for forty days and nights,
Darby Translation
So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights, as I fell down; for Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
Easy-to-Read Version
"So I bowed down before the Lord 40 days and 40 nights, because the Lord said he would destroy you.
George Lamsa Translation
Thus I prayed before the LORD forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Good News Translation
"So I lay face downward in the Lord 's presence those forty days and nights, because I knew that he was determined to destroy you.
Christian Standard Bible®
“I fell down in the presence of the Lord forty days and forty nights because the Lord had threatened to destroy you.
Literal Translation
And I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and the forty nights as I had thrown myself down before , for Jehovah had said to destroy you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The fell I before ye LORDE fortye daies and fortye nightes, which I laye there. For ye LORDE sayde, he wolde destroye you.
American Standard Version
So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
Bible in Basic English
So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I fell downe flat before the Lorde fourtie dayes & fourtie nightes, as I fell downe before: for the Lorde sayde, he woulde destroy you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
King James Version (1611)
Thus I fell downe before the Lord fourtie dayes, and fourtie nights, as I fel downe at the first, because the Lord had said, he would destroy you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed before, for the Lord said that he would utterly destroy you.
English Revised Version
So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Berean Standard Bible
So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y lay byfore the Lord fourti daies and fourti nyytis, in whiche Y bisouyte hym mekeli, that he schulde not `do awey you, as he manaasside.
Young's Literal Translation
`And I throw myself before Jehovah, the forty days and the forty nights, as I had thrown myself, for Jehovah hath said -- to destroy you;
Update Bible Version
So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
New King James Version
"Thus I prostrated myself before the LORD; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
New Living Translation
"That is why I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights—for the Lord said he would destroy you.
New Life Bible
"So I fell down before the Lord and lay forty days and nights, because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
New Revised Standard
Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate before the Lord when the Lord intended to destroy you,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, then lay I prostrate before Yahweh, the forty days and the forty nights that I did lie prostrate, - because Yahweh spake of destroying you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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:
Revised Standard Version
"So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
THE MESSAGE
When I was on my face, prostrate before God those forty days and nights after God said he would destroy you, I prayed to God for you, "My Master, God , don't destroy your people, your inheritance whom, in your immense generosity, you redeemed, using your enormous strength to get them out of Egypt.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and nights, which I did because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

Contextual Overview

7 Remember, don't forget, how you made Adonai your God angry in the desert. From the day you left the land of Egypt till you arrived at this place, you have been rebelling against Adonai . 8 Also in Horev you made Adonai angry — Adonai was angry enough with you to destroy you! 9 I had gone up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets on which was written the covenant Adonai had made with you. I stayed on the mountain forty days and nights without eating food or drinking water. 10 Then Adonai gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God; and on them was written every word Adonai had said to you from the fire on the mountain the day of the assembly. 11 Yes, after forty days and nights Adonai gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. 12 Then Adonai said to me, ‘Get up, and hurry down from here, because your people, whom you led out of Egypt, have become corrupt. So quickly have they turned aside from the way I ordered them to follow! They have made themselves a metal image!' 13 Moreover, Adonai said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and what a stiffnecked people they are! 14 Let me alone, so that I can put an end to them and blot out their name from under heaven! I will make out of you a nation bigger and stronger than they.' 15 I came down from the mountain. The mountain was blazing fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 I looked, and there, you had sinned against Adonai your God! You had made yourselves a metal calf, you had turned aside quickly from the way Adonai had ordered you to follow.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 9:16, Deuteronomy 9:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:17 - fell Exodus 24:18 - forty days Exodus 34:2 - in the top Exodus 34:28 - forty days Deuteronomy 10:10 - I stayed Psalms 106:23 - he said Matthew 4:2 - fasted Mark 1:13 - forty Luke 4:2 - forty 2 Corinthians 12:21 - that I Galatians 3:19 - in

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
Adonai , God, said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all livestock and wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust as long as you live.
Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood at your hands.
Genesis 9:7
And you people, be fruitful, multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply on it."
Genesis 9:8
(v) God spoke to Noach and his sons with him; he said,
Genesis 9:20
Noach, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard.
Genesis 9:21
He drank so much of the wine that he got drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.
Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Kena‘an, saw his father shamefully exposed, went out and told his two brothers.
Genesis 9:28
After the flood Noach lived 350 years.
Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it has been fierce; their fury, for it has been cruel. I will divide them in Ya‘akov and scatter them in Isra'el.
Deuteronomy 27:16
"‘A curse on anyone who dishonors his father or mother.' All the people are to say, ‘Amen!'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first,.... Which Jarchi says are the selfsame said above, Deuteronomy 9:18, but doubled or repeated, because of the order of his prayer. The words "at the first" are not in the text; and, as before observed, we do not read that Moses fell down at the first forty days he was in the mount, unless it can be thought he did, Exodus 32:11, wherefore this falling down seems to be as he fell down at the second forty days; and so this was a third forty days, according to the Jewish writers, and of which opinion were Dr. Lightfoot and others; Exodus 32:11- :,

because the Lord had said he would destroy you; threatened them with destruction, and seemed as if it was his intention to destroy them; nay, even after Moses's first prayer, though he bid him go and lead the people on, yet he declared that he would visit their sin upon them, Exodus 32:34.


 
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