Forty days and forty nights; the same mentioned before, Deuteronomy 9:18, as appears,
1. By comparing this with Exodus, where this history is more fully related, and where this is said to be done twice only.
2. By the occasion and matter of Moses's prayer here following, which is the same with the former.
3. By the words here following, as I fell down at first, which show that this was the second time of his so doing.