Deuteronomy 9:18 meaning and explanation
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
Deuteronomy 9:18, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Moses is speaking to Israel on the plains of Moab, retelling the golden calf disaster at Horeb. After shattering the tablets, he prostrated himself before the LORD another forty days and nights, fasting from bread and water, as he had done when he first received the covenant.
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