Deuteronomy 2:7

2:7 All along the way I, the Lord your God, ¹  have blessed your every effort. ²  I have ³  been attentive to ⁴  your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have ⁵  been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

Deuteronomy 8:2

8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ⁶  has brought you these forty years through the desert ⁷  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 9:9

9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there ⁸  forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Deuteronomy 9:18

9:18 Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

Deuteronomy 10:10

10:10 As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.

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¹ tn The Hebrew text does not have the first person pronoun; it has been supplied for purposes of English style (the Lord is speaking here).

² tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”

³ tn Heb “he has.” This has been converted to first person in the translation in keeping with English style.

⁴ tn Heb “known” (so ASV, NASB); NAB “been concerned about.”

⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God has.” This has been replaced in the translation by the first person pronoun (“I”) in keeping with English style.

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.

⁸ tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.