Deuteronomy 9:9-11

Not Because of Righteousness

⁹ _j When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain _k forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. ¹⁰ And _l the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire _m on the day of the assembly. ¹¹ And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

1. Cross References
   Exodus 24:12
   The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.
   Exodus 24:15
   Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
   
2. Cross References
   Exodus 24:18
   Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
   Exodus 34:28
   So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
   1 Kings 19:8
   And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
   Matthew 4:2
   And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
   Luke 4:1 - 2
   And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness
   
3. Cross References
   Exodus 31:18
   And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
   
4. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 4:10
   How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, 'Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.
   Deuteronomy 10:4
   And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them to me.
   Deuteronomy 18:16
   Just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.
   Exodus 19:17
   Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.