Skip to main content

Deuteronomy 9:25

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.

KJV

Et jacui coram Domino quadraginta diebus ac noctibus, quibus eum suppliciter deprecabar, ne deleret vos ut fuerat comminatus :

Vulgate

καὶ ἐδεήθην ἐναντίον Κυρίου τεσσεράκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ τεσσεράκοντα νύκτας ὅσας ἐδεήθην, εἶπεν γὰρ Κύριος ἐξολεθρεῦσαι ὑμᾶς·

LXX

So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.

ASV

וָֽ/אֶתְנַפַּ֞ל לִ/פְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֗ה אֵ֣ת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים הַ/יּ֛וֹם וְ/אֶת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים הַ/לַּ֖יְלָה אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִתְנַפָּ֑לְתִּי כִּֽי אָמַ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה לְ/הַשְׁמִ֥יד אֶתְ/כֶֽם

Hebrew

Open in reader with connections →

In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים
'rb'ym
adjective · 135×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יִּפֹּ֥ל
ypl
verb · 434×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
ם
m
verb · 90×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 9:16 — And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
  • Deut 9:18 — 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
  • Deut 10:10 — And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
  • Exod 24:18 — 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.
  • Exod 34:2 — And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
  • Exod 34:28 — 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.
  • Gal 3:19 — Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
  • Matt 4:2 — And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
  • Ps 106:23 — Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.