Deuteronomy 9:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּעֲלֹתִ֣י הָהָ֗רָה לָקַ֜חַת לוּחֹ֤ת הָֽאֲבָנִים֙ לוּחֹ֣ת הַבְּרִ֔ית אֲשֶׁר־כָּרַ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה עִמָּכֶ֑ם וָאֵשֵׁ֣ב בָּהָ֗ר אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְאַרְבָּעִ֣ים לַ֔יְלָה לֶ֚חֶם לֹ֣א אָכַ֔לְתִּי וּמַ֖יִם לֹ֥א שָׁתִֽיתִי׃

Transliteration

In-ʿălōtî the-hāhārâ lāqaḥat lûḥōt the-ʾăbānîm lûḥōt the-bĕrît which-kārat YHWH with-you wāʾēšēb in-the-hār forty yôm and-forty laylâ leḥem not ʾākaltî and-mayim not šātîtî

Grammar Details

• *ʿălōtî*: verb, qal infinitive construct with 1st person singular suffix - my going up
• *hāhārâ*: noun, masculine singular with definite article and directional he - to the mountain
• *lāqaḥat*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to take
• *lûḥōt*: noun, masculine plural construct - tablets of
• *ʾăbānîm*: noun, feminine plural with definite article - the stones
• *bĕrît*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the covenant
• *kārat*: verb, qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he cut/made
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *wāʾēšēb*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect consecutive 1st person singular - and I stayed
• *hār*: noun, masculine singular with preposition bet - in the mountain
• *yôm*: noun, masculine singular - day
• *laylâ*: noun, masculine singular - night
• *leḥem*: noun, masculine singular - bread
• *ʾākaltî*: verb, qal perfect 1st person singular - I ate
• *mayim*: noun, masculine plural - water
• *šātîtî*: verb, qal perfect 1st person singular - I drank

Word Meanings

• *ʿălōtî*: my going up/my ascending/my climbing
• *lāqaḥat*: to take/to receive/to fetch
• *lûḥōt*: tablets/slabs/boards
• *bĕrît*: covenant/agreement/treaty
• *kārat*: cut/made/established
• *wāʾēšēb*: I stayed/I remained/I dwelt
• *leḥem*: bread/food/sustenance

Referenced Verses

• Exod 34:28 : 28 And he was there with Jehovah 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.
• Exod 24:18 : 18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
• Exod 24:12 : 12 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.
• Exod 24:15 : 15 And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
• 1 Kgs 19:8 : 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
• Matt 4:2 : 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
• Deut 9:18 : 18 And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
• 1 Kgs 13:8-9 : 8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place; 9 for so was it charged me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Thou shalt eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that thou camest.
• Deut 9:15 : 15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
• Exod 31:18 : 18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
• Gal 4:24 : 24 Which things contain an allegory: for these [women] are {G1242} two covenants; {G3303} one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.
• 2 Kgs 6:22 : 22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
• Jer 31:31-32 : 31 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.