stayed. Compare Exodus 34:28.
and. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "therefore".
destroy. Hebrew. shahath = infliction of judgments.
Related Commentaries of Deuteronomy 10:10
Deuteronomy 10:10
10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the firstb time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.