Exodus 34:28

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

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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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Exod 34:1 : 1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
Deut 4:13 : 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Exod 24:18 : 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him 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, two tables of 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 the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deut 9:18 : 18 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.
Deut 9:25 : 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Deut 10:2-4 : 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
2 Cor 3:7 : 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

Similar Verses (AI)

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Deut 9:9-11
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9When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
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18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Deut 9:18
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18And 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.
Exod 34:27
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27And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Deut 10:10
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10And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
Exod 34:29
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29And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
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Exod 24:11-12
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Exod 31:18
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18And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
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15And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
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Deut 10:1-5
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1At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
2And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
4And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
5And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
Deut 4:13
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Exod 34:1-5
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1And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
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3And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
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Deut 9:15
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Exod 34:32
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