Exodus 34:28

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וֽ͏ַיְהִי־שָׁ֣ם עִם־יְהוָ֗ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יוֹם֙ וְאַרְבָּעִ֣ים לַ֔יְלָה לֶ֚חֶם לֹ֣א אָכַ֔ל וּמַ֖יִם לֹ֣א שָׁתָ֑ה וַיִּכְתֹּ֣ב עַל־הַלֻּחֹ֗ת אֵ֚ת דִּבְרֵ֣י הַבְּרִ֔ית עֲשֶׂ֖רֶת הַדְּבָרִֽים׃

Transliteration

wa-yəhî-there with-YHWH ʾarbāʿîm yôm wə-ʾarbāʿîm laylāh leḥem lōʾ ʾākal û-mayim lōʾ šātāh wa-yiktōb on-ha-luḥōt ʾēt dibrê ha-bərît ʿăśeret ha-dəbārîm

Grammar Details

*wa-yəhî*: conjunction + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he was
*YHWH*: proper name - Yahweh/LORD
*ʾarbāʿîm*: cardinal number - forty
*yôm*: masculine singular - day
*wə-ʾarbāʿîm*: conjunction + cardinal number - and forty
*laylāh*: masculine singular - night
*leḥem*: masculine singular - bread
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*ʾākal*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he ate
*û-mayim*: conjunction + masculine plural - and water
*šātāh*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he drank
*wa-yiktōb*: conjunction + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he wrote
*ha-luḥōt*: definite article + feminine plural - the tablets
*ʾēt*: direct object marker
*dibrê*: masculine plural construct - words of
*ha-bərît*: definite article + feminine singular - the covenant
*ʿăśeret*: feminine singular construct - ten of
*ha-dəbārîm*: definite article + masculine plural - the words

Word Meanings

*yəhî*: was/existed/remained
*leḥem*: bread/food
*ʾākal*: ate/consumed/devoured
*šātāh*: drank/consumed
*yiktōb*: wrote/inscribed/recorded
*luḥōt*: tablets/plates
*dibrê*: words/matters/things of
*ʿăśeret*: ten/decade
*dəbārîm*: words/commandments/sayings

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Exod 34:1 : 1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou brakest.
Deut 4:13 : 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
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 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.
Exod 32:16 : 16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Deut 9:9 : 9 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.
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.
Deut 9:25 : 25 So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
Deut 10:2-4 : 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Jehovah spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Jehovah gave them unto me.
2 Cor 3:7 : 7 But if the ministration of death, written, [and] engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away:

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