Deuteronomy 9:25

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“So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.”

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BSBPD

“So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the Lord had said he would destroy you.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And I throw myself before Jehovah, the forty days and the forty nights, as I had thrown myself, for Jehovah hath said--to destroy you;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 9:25 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 34:28So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
  2. Deuteronomy 9:16And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
  3. Deuteronomy 9:18Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

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