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Deuteronomy 9:18
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 9:18
New Catholic Bible
18 Then I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and for forty nights.[a] I did not eat food nor did I drink water on account of all the sins you had committed, doing what was so evil in the sight of the Lord that you provoked him to anger.
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- Deuteronomy 9:18 Forty days and for forty nights: Moses’ perseverance in prayer for Aaron and the Israelites (see also v. 25) saved them from destruction.