Deutéronome 9:18

Louis Segond

Je me prosternai devant l'Eternel, comme auparavant, quarante jours et quarante nuits, sans manger de pain et sans boire d'eau, à cause de tous les péchés que vous aviez commis en faisant ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Eternel, pour l'irriter.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Puis je me prosternai devant l'Éternel comme auparavant, quarante jours et quarante nuits, sans manger de pain ni boire d'eau, à cause de tout le péché que vous aviez commis en faisant ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Éternel, pour l'irriter;

Darby's French Translation
Et je me prosternai devant l'Éternel, comme au commencement, quarante jours et quarante nuits; je ne mangeai point de pain, et je ne bus point d'eau, à cause de tout votre péché que vous aviez commis, en faisant ce qui est mauvais aux yeux de l'Éternel afin de le provoquer à colère;

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Puis je me prosternai devant l'Eternel, durant quarante jours et quarante nuits, comme auparavant, sans manger de pain, et sans boire d'eau, à cause de tout votre péché, que vous aviez commis, en faisant ce qui est déplaisant à l'Eternel, afin de l'irriter.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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. Deuteronomy 9:9, Exodus 32:10-14, Exodus 34:28, 2 Samuel 12:16, Psalms 106:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:12 - forty Genesis 17:17 - fell Exodus 24:18 - forty days Exodus 32:11 - besought Exodus 32:31 - returned Deuteronomy 9:25 - General Deuteronomy 10:10 - I stayed 1 Kings 19:8 - forty days 2 Kings 14:24 - in the sight Ezra 10:6 - he did eat Job 1:20 - fell Proverbs 29:8 - wise Ezekiel 9:8 - that I Ezekiel 11:13 - Then Matthew 4:2 - fasted Mark 1:13 - forty Mark 14:35 - and fell Luke 4:2 - forty Acts 1:3 - forty 1 Corinthians 14:25 - falling James 5:16 - The effectual 1 John 5:16 - he shall ask

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I fell down before the Lord,.... In prayer for Israel who had sinned; but this he did not immediately after he had broken the tables, but when he had first ground the calf to powder, strewed it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it; and when he had chided Aaron, and ordered the sons of Levi to slay every man his brother:

as at the first forty days and forty mights; which is to be connected, I think, not with what goes before; for we read not that he fell down before the Lord, at the first time he was with him so long in the mount; but with what follows: "I did neither eat bread nor drink water"; as he neither ate nor drank the first forty days, so neither did he these second forty; see Deuteronomy 9:9

because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger; for they were guilty of more sins than one; besides idolatry, they were guilty of unbelief, ingratitude, c. which were notorious and flagrant, were done openly and publicly, in sight of his glory and majesty on the mount all which must be very provoking to him, and on account of these Moses prayed and fasted.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I fell down before the Lord, as at the first - Moses interceded for the people before he came down from the mountain the first time Exodus 32:11-13. This intercession is only briefly alluded to in this verse. Afterward he spent another 40 days on the mountain in fasting and prayer to obtain a complete restitution of the covenant Exodus 34:28. It is this second forty days, and the intercession of Moses made therein (compare Exodus 34:9), that is more particularly brought forward here and in Deuteronomy 9:25-29.