Exodus 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.
KJV
Fuit ergo ibi cum Domino quadraginta dies et quadraginta noctes : panem non comedit, et aquam non bibit, et scripsit in tabulis verba fœderis decem.
Vulgate
Καὶ ἦν ἐκεῖ Μωυσῆς ἐναντίον Κυρίου τεσσεράκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ τεσσεράκοντα νύκτας· ἄρτον οὐκ ἔφαγεν καὶ ὕδωρ οὐκ ἔπιεν· καὶ ἔγραψεν τὰ ῥήματα ταῦτα ἐπὶ τῶν πλακῶν τῆς διαθήκης, τοὺς δέκα λόγους.
LXX
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.
ASV
וַֽ/יְהִי שָׁ֣ם עִם יְהוָ֗ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְ/אַרְבָּעִ֣ים לַ֔יְלָה לֶ֚חֶם לֹ֣א אָכַ֔ל וּ/מַ֖יִם לֹ֣א שָׁתָ֑ה וַ/יִּכְתֹּ֣ב עַל הַ/לֻּחֹ֗ת אֵ֚ת דִּבְרֵ֣י הַ/בְּרִ֔ית עֲשֶׂ֖רֶת הַ/דְּבָרִֽים
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
19 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.
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Matt 4:2 · echo"And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred."Exodus: Moses fasted forty days — Jesus fasts forty days
Typology
Covenant
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
It is incumbent on us, therefore, to investigate deeply concerning the present times, and to search out the things which have power to save us. Let us then utterly flee from all the works of iniquity, lest these works should take hold of us.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 19:8 — And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
- 2Cor 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glo
- Deut 4:13 — 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.
- Deut 4:13 — 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.
- Deut 9:9 — When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat
- 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 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 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.
- Deut 10:4 — And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave
- 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 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 31:18 — 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.
- Exod 31:18 — 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.
- Exod 32:16 — And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
- Exod 34:1 — 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.
- Exod 34:1 — 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.
- Luke 4:2 — Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
- Mark 1:13 — And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
- Matt 4:2 — And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- Num 13:25 — And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.