⁸ And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food ^(A)forty days and forty nights to ^(B)Horeb, the mount of God.

^28 (A)So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he ^(B)wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.^[a]

² And after fasting ^(A)forty days and forty nights, he ^(B)was hungry.

¹⁸ Then I ^(A)lay prostrate before the Lord ^(B)as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, ^(C)in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger.

¹⁸ Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses ^(A)was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

The Burning Bush

3 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the ^(A)mountain of God.

⁹ But he said to me, ^(A)“My grace is sufficient for you, for ^(B)my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that ^(C)the power of Christ may rest upon me.

² for ^(A)forty days, ^(B)being tempted by the devil. ^(C)And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, ^(D)he was hungry.

^13 (A)And he was in the wilderness forty days, being ^(B)tempted by ^(C)Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and ^(D)the angels were ministering to him.

^4 (A)“Remember ^(B)the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules^[a] that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.