Deuteronomio 9:25

25 Io stetti dunque così prostrato davanti all’Eterno quei quaranta giorni e quelle quaranta notti, perché l’Eterno avea detto di volervi distruggere.

Deuteronomio 9:25 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 9:25

Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights,
as I fell down at the first
Which Jarchi says are the selfsame said above, ( Deuteronomy 9:18 ) , but doubled or repeated, because of the order of his prayer. The words "at the first" are not in the text; and, as before observed, we do not read that Moses fell down at the first forty days he was in the mount, unless it can be thought he did, ( Exodus 32:11 ) , wherefore this falling down seems to be as he fell down at the second forty days; and so this was a third forty days, according to the Jewish writers, and of which opinion were Dr. Lightfoot and others; (See Gill on Exodus 34:28),

because the Lord had said he would destroy you;
threatened them with destruction, and seemed as if it was his intention to destroy them; nay, even after Moses's first prayer, though he bid him go and lead the people on, yet he declared that he would visit their sin upon them, ( Exodus 32:34 ) .

Deuteronomio 9:25 In-Context

23 E quando l’Eterno vi volle far partire da Kades-Barnea dicendo: "Salite, e impossessatevi del paese che io vi do", voi vi ribellaste all’ordine dell’Eterno, del vostro Dio, non aveste fede in lui, e non ubbidiste alla sua voce.

24 Siete stati ribelli all’Eterno, dal giorno che vi conobbi.

25 Io stetti dunque così prostrato davanti all’Eterno quei quaranta giorni e quelle quaranta notti, perché l’Eterno avea detto di volervi distruggere.

26 E pregai l’Eterno e dissi: "O Signore, o Eterno, non distruggere il tuo popolo, la tua eredità, che hai redento nella tua grandezza, che hai tratto dall’Egitto con mano potente.

27 Ricordati de’ tuoi servi, Abrahamo, Isacco e Giacobbe; non guardare alla caparbietà di questo popolo, e alla sua malvagità, e al suo peccato,