Deuteronomy 9:9
up <05927> [I was.]
tablets ... tablets <03871> [the tables.]
remained <03427> [then I.]
eating <0398> [I neither.]
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.
