OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 9:25

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So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

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Verse 25. Nights. See verse 18. Calmet.—After specifying various seditions of the people, Moses returns to what he had been saying respecting the tables of the law, and shews with what difficulty he obtained pardon for the people, and the second tables. Bible.—Some people believe that Moses was thrice 40 days in the mountain. He mentions the prayer which he addressed to God before his first descent. Exodus 32:11. Menochius.

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