So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
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- KJV 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.
- BSB So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
- NKJV “Thus I prostrated myself before the Lord; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
- NASB “So I fell down before the Lord for the forty days and nights, which I did because the Lord said He would destroy you.
- NLT “That is why I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights—for the Lord said he would destroy you.
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Cross-references · 2
- Deut 9:18I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
- Deut 9:16I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
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