“And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.”
Then once again I fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and so arousing his anger — Moses' intercession mirrors his earlier fasting: another 40-day vigil, now devoted to prayer rather than covenant-receiving. The prostration (the Hebrew naphal, to fall) suggests complete abasement before the wrathful God.
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