Moses and the Burning Bush

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

²⁸ Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights^(A) without eating bread or drinking water.^(B) And he wrote on the tablets^(C) the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.^(D)

⁹ When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant^(A) that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days^(B) and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.^{(C) 10} The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.^(D) On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.^(E)

¹¹ At the end of the forty days and forty nights,^(F) the Lord gave me the two stone tablets,^(G) the tablets of the covenant.

¹⁸ Then once again I fell^(A) prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water,^(B) because of all the sin you had committed,^(C) doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger.

² After fasting forty days and forty nights,^(A) he was hungry.