For the man, on whom this miraculous sign ¹  of healing had been performed, ²  was over forty years old.

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, ¹  for he ²  had said he would destroy you.

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.

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; ¹  he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. ² 

According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for ¹  your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me. ² 

the descendants of Zattu: 945;

the descendants of Bani: 642;

the men of the family ¹  of Azmaveth: 42;

the men of Jericho: ¹  345;

the descendants of Zattu, 845;

the descendants of Binnui, 648;

the men of the family ¹  of Azmaveth, 42;

the descendants of Jericho, 345;

and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.

and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame and two bases under the next ¹  frame.

Asa passed away ¹  in the forty-first year of his reign.

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 ¹  forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

“There your fathers tested me and tried me, ¹  and they saw my works for forty years.

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.

The judge ¹  may sentence him to forty blows, ²  but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite ³  with contempt.