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Typology · typological · Confidence: medium · curated

Moses' Forty Days on Sinai and Christ's Forty Days in Wilderness

Cited scripture

  • 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
  • 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.

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1 passages from 1 historic works cite scripture this interpretation depends on.

  • Epistle of Barnabas · 1 passage