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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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:
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. …
And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-29)That they might have no pretence to think that God brought them to Canaan for their righteousness , Moses here shows them what a miracle of mercy it was that they had not long ere this been destroyed in the wilderness: “ Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God (Deut. 9:7); so far from purchasing his favour, thou hast many a time laid thyself open to his displeasure.” Their f…
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