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Deuteronomy 9:25

Deuteronomy 9:25 is verse 25 of Deuteronomy chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

King James Version

Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

World English Bible

So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.

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Deuteronomy 9:23–27 · Berean Standard Bible

23 And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

24 You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.

25 So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

26 And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

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Hebrew words

וָֽאֶתְנַפַּ֞לand I prostrated myself לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before יְהוָ֗הYahweh אֵ֣ת<obj.>אַרְבָּעִ֥ים[the] forty הַיּ֛וֹםthe day[s]וְאֶתand <obj.>אַרְבָּעִ֥ים[the] forty הַלַּ֖יְלָהthe night[s]אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich הִתְנַפָּ֑לְתִּיI prostrated myself כִּֽיfor אָמַ֥רhe had said יְהוָ֖הYahweh לְהַשְׁמִ֥ידto destroy אֶתְכֶֽם<obj.> you

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Deuteronomy 9:16
And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

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