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Did Moses fast (without food or water) for 81-days straight in Deuteronomy 9:9-18 | Or did Moses eat & drink in verses 12-17?
- If the descent from Mount Horeb, destruction of the Golden Calf, and ascension back up Mount Horeb took place in 1-day (Verses 12-17) : Then Moses appears to have an unimaginable fast for 81-days = 40-days (Verses 9-11) + 1-day (Verses 15-17) + 40-days (Verses 18).
NIV | Deuteronomy 9: 9-18
9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the
tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed
on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank
no water.—
10 The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.
On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the
mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.11 At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the
two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.12 Then the Lord told me, “Go down from here at once, because your
people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have
turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made an idol
for themselves.”13 And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are a
stiff-necked people indeed! 14 Let me alone, so that I may destroy
them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you
into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”15 So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze
with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.16 When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God;
you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You
had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking
them to pieces before your eyes.—
18 Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all
the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and
so arousing his anger.
