When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the <sc>Lordsc> made with you, I remained there<n id="1" /> forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Then I again fell down before the <sc>Lordsc> for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the <sc>Lordsc> as to enrage him.

I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead;<n id="1" /> I have obeyed you<n id="2" /> and have done everything you have commanded me.