EXODUS 34:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 1
“And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.”
Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant — the Ten Commandments. The second forty days without food or water produces the second set of tablets. Matthew 4:2 records Jesus fasting forty days and forty nights in the wilderness. The two forty-day fasts — Moses on the mountain for the covenant, Jesus in the wilderness before his ministry — frame the two covenant eras. The mediator of each covenant is formed through forty days of total dependence on God before the covenant he mediates goes forward.
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