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Christian Standard Bible ®

Deuteronomy 9:25

“I fell down in the presence of the Lord forty days and forty nights because the Lord had threatened to 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,
Complete Jewish Bible
"So I fell down before Adonai for those forty days and nights; and I lay there; because Adonai had said he would destroy you.
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.
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 and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against the Lord from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place. 8You provoked the Lord at Horeb, and he was angry enough with you to destroy you. 9When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat food or drink water. 10On the day of the assembly the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by God’s finger. The exact words were on them, which the Lord spoke to you from the fire on the mountain. 11The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant, at the end of the forty days and forty nights. 12“The Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go down immediately from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast image for themselves.’ 13The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people. 14Leave me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’ 15“So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. 16I saw how you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord had commanded for you.

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
So the Lord God said to the serpent:
Genesis 4:11
So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
Genesis 9:7
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”
Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
Genesis 9:20
Noah, as a man of the soil, began by planting a vineyard.
Genesis 9:21
He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:28
Now Noah lived 350 years after the flood.
Genesis 49:7
Their anger is cursed, for it is strong,and their fury, for it is cruel!I will disperse them throughout Jacoband scatter them throughout Israel.
Deuteronomy 27:16
‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’

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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