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.
Moses stayed there with the LORD for forty days and forty nights without eating any food or drinking any water. During this time, he wrote the words of the agreement on the stone tablets—the Ten Commandments.
This verse describes Moses spending forty days and nights with God on Mount Sinai, fasting completely while writing down the Ten Commandments on stone tablets.
📚 Historical Context
This event occurred after Moses had broken the first set of stone tablets in anger when he found the Israelites worshiping the golden calf. God called Moses back up Mount Sinai to receive a second set of the Ten Commandments. The forty-day period represents a time of intense spiritual communion between Moses and God, during which Moses was sustained supernaturally without food or water.
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