⁹ “when I had gone up into the mount, to receive the Tablets of stone, the Tablets of the Covenant which the LORD made with you. And I stayed on the mount for forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

¹⁸ “And I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as before. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sins which you had committed, doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to wrath.