Deuteronomy 9:9
9:9 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
forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
Exodus 32:10-14
32:10 So now, leave me alone
so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”
32:11 But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
32:12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.
32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”
32:14 Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
Exodus 34:28
34:28 So he was there with the
Lord forty days and forty nights;
he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Exodus 34:2
34:2 Be prepared
in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself
for me there on the top of the mountain.
Exodus 12:16
12:16 On the first day there will be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kind on them, only what every person will eat – that alone may be prepared for you.
Psalms 106:23
106:23 He threatened to destroy them,
but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him
and turned back his destructive anger.