I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 18. 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, (verse 25. Calmet. 10:10,) unless Moses repeat what he has here asserted, as many able chronologers suppose. Torneil, Usher, and so forth Calmet. Tirinus.—The former opinion is maintained, however, by Salien, and so forth Exodus 34. Bible.