Deut 9:18
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I fell down.
The transgressions of the people rendered this second forty days' fasting necessary to Moses.
Their pardon was indeed in some sense obtained before he ascended the mount; yet probably much of the time which he spent there was employed in supplication: and when he descended the second time, with the tables of the law in his hands, the pardon was, as it were, ratified and sealed.
Deut 9:9; Exod 32:10-14; Exod 34:28; 2Sam 12:16; Ps 106:23