Deuteronomy 9:3
Understand <03045> [Understand.]
goes <05674> [goeth over.]
devouring fire <0784 0398> [a consuming fire.]
defeat ... subdue <08045 03665> [he shall.]
Deuteronomy 9:18
fell <05307> [I fell down.]
The transgressions of the people rendered this second forty days' fasting necessary to Moses. Their pardon was indeed in some sense obtained before he ascended the mount; yet probably much of the time which he spent there was employed in supplication: and when he descended the second time, with the tables of the law in his hands, the pardon was, as it were, ratified and sealed.