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.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Nights. See ver. 18. (Calmet)
After specifying various seditions of the people, Moses returns to what he had been saying respecting the tables of the law, and shows with what difficulty he obtained pardon for the people, and the second tables. (Haydock)
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 xxxii. 11. (Menochius)
