Thematic Bible: Of fasting


Thematic Bible



Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.

Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.

“I fell down in the presence of the Lord 40 days and 40 nights because the Lord had threatened to destroy you.


So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked 40 days and 40 nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.


At the end of 40 days they returned from scouting out the land.


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