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So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyWaterForty DaysTen ThingsMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Law Given Through Moses

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. Verse ConceptsFasting, Reasons ForWaterMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At Sinai

Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him. Verse ConceptsMediatorProstrationWaterFasting, Accompanied ByMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyForty DaysMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods


Now we make known to you, brothers and sisters, the grace of God given to the churches of Macedonia, that during a severe ordeal of suffering, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in the wealth of their generosity. For I testify, they gave according to their means and beyond their means. They did so voluntarily, read more.
begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints. And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, worth less than a penny. He called his disciples and said to them, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the offering box than all the others. For they all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had."

and told Moses, "The people are bringing much more than is needed for the completion of the work which the Lord commanded us to do!" Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsGenerosity, HumanRevival, Nature OfGenerous Giving ExamplesDonationsSacrificial GivingTithes And OfferingWorking For The Lordconstruction

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