¹⁸ Then I ^(A)lay prostrate before the Lord ^(B)as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, ^(C)in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger.

^25 (A)“So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

^10 (A)“I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, ^(B)and the Lord listened to me that time also. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.