Deuteronomio 9:18

18 Y me postré delante del SEÑOR como al principio, por cuarenta días y cuarenta noches; no comí pan ni bebí agua, a causa de todo el pecado que habíais cometido al hacer lo malo ante los ojos del SEÑOR, provocándole a ira.

Deuteronomio 9:18 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 9:18

And I fell down before the Lord
In prayer for Israel who had sinned; but this he did not immediately after he had broken the tables, but when he had first ground the calf to powder, strewed it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it; and when he had chided Aaron, and ordered the sons of Levi to slay every man his brother:

as at the first forty days and forty mights;
which is to be connected, I think, not with what goes before; for we read not that he fell down before the Lord, at the first time he was with him so long in the mount; but with what follows: "I did neither eat bread nor drink water"; as he neither ate nor drank the first forty days, so neither did he these second forty; see ( Deuteronomy 9:9 )

because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the
sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger;
for they were guilty of more sins than one; besides idolatry, they were guilty of unbelief, ingratitude which were notorious and flagrant, were done openly and publicly, in sight of his glory and majesty on the mount; all which must be very provoking to him, and on account of these Moses prayed and fasted.

Deuteronomio 9:18 In-Context

16 Y vi que en verdad habíais pecado contra el SEÑOR vuestro Dios. Os habíais hecho un becerro de fundición; pronto os habíais apartado del camino que el SEÑOR os había ordenado.

17 Tomé las dos tablas, las arrojé de mis manos y las hice pedazos delante de vuestros ojos.

18 Y me postré delante del SEÑOR como al principio, por cuarenta días y cuarenta noches; no comí pan ni bebí agua, a causa de todo el pecado que habíais cometido al hacer lo malo ante los ojos del SEÑOR, provocándole a ira.

19 Porque temí la ira y el furor con que el SEÑOR estaba enojado contra vosotros para destruiros, pero el SEÑOR me escuchó también esta vez.

20 Y el SEÑOR se enojó tanto con Aarón que quiso destruirlo; y también intercedí por Aarón al mismo tiempo.