Exodus 34:28 “So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without e…”

Exodus 34:28

So 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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

He was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

American Standard Version

And he was there with Jehovah 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

So hee was there with the Lord fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, and did neither eat bread nor drinke water: and hee wrote in the Tables the wordes of the couenant, euen the tenne commandements.

Darby Translation

— And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water. — And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.

Young's Literal Translation

And he is there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; bread he hath not eaten, and water he hath not drunk; and he writeth on the tables the matters of the covenant — the ten matters.

Bible in Basic English

And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

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Cross references

“forty days”

Exodus 24:18 Deuteronomy 9:18 Deuteronomy 9:25 Deuteronomy 9:9

Exodus 24:18 · BSB

Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:18 · BSB

Then 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…

Deuteronomy 9:25 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 9:9 · BSB

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

“he wrote”

Exodus 34:1 Deuteronomy 4:13 Exodus 31:18 Exodus 32:16 2 Corinthians 3:7 Deuteronomy 10:2–4

Exodus 34:1 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Deuteronomy 4:13 · BSB

He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

Exodus 31:18 · BSB

When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

Exodus 32:16 · BSB

The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

2 Corinthians 3:7 · BSB

Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,

Deuteronomy 10:2–4 · BSB

And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

29And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.

Read Exodus 34