| Deuteronomy 9:18
| And I fell down before the Lord, as before, forty days and nights, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:
| Sins. Many believe that Moses spent the whole time in obtaining pardon. Hiscuni agrees herein with the other Rabbins, only he thinks Moses was all the time in the tabernacle. Other 40 days, or a third rigid fast, were requisite to obtain the second tables of the law, as the text seems to insinuate, (Deuteronomy 9:25.; Deuteronomy 10:10.) unless Moses repeat what he has here asserted, as many able chronologers suppose. (Torneil; Usher; etc.) (Calmet) (Tirinus) --- The former opinion is maintained, however, by Salien, etc., Exodus xxxiv. (Haydock)
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