1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Exodus 24:18

And Moses entering into the midst of the cloud, went up into the mountain: *And he was there forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9.

Forty, including the six mentioned before, ver. 16. The Rabbins pretend that Moses received the written law during the days, and their traditions during the nights. (R. Bechai ap. Buxtorf, syn. 1.) (Calmet)