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When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there[a] forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

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  1. Deuteronomy 9:9 tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

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)

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