28 So he was there with the Lord ^wforty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ^xTen Commandments.¹

9 When I went up the mountain to receive the ^ktablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. ^lI neither ate bread nor drank water.

8 And he arose and ate and drank, and went ^uin the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.