Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 2:7 
Context2:7 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
Context8:2 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
Context9:9 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
Context9:18 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
Context10:10 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.
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
6 tn Heb “the
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.
