²⁸ So he was there with Yahweh ^(A)forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And ^[a](B)he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, ^(C)the Ten ^[b]Commandments.

^18 (A)And I fell down before Yahweh, ^(B)as at the first, forty days and nights; ^(C)I neither ate bread nor drank water ^(D)because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of Yahweh to provoke Him to anger.