The LORD said to Moses, "Come up the mountain to me, and while you are here, I will give you two stone tablets which contain all the laws that I have written for the instruction of the people."

Moses went up Mount Sinai, and a cloud covered it.

Moses went on up the mountain into the cloud. There he stayed for forty days and nights.

"So I turned and went down the mountain, carrying the two stone tablets on which the covenant was written. Flames of fire were coming from the mountain.

When God had finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two stone tablets on which God himself had written the commandments.

Moses stayed there with the LORD forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant---the Ten Commandments.

The LORD says, "The time is coming when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.

It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them, they did not keep that covenant.

These things can be understood as a figure: the two women represent two covenants. The one whose children are born in slavery is Hagar, and she represents the covenant made at Mount Sinai.

Moses went on up the mountain into the cloud. There he stayed for forty days and nights.

Moses stayed there with the LORD forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant---the Ten Commandments.

Elijah got up, ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to walk forty days to Sinai, the holy mountain.

After spending forty days and nights without food, Jesus was hungry.

Then once again I lay face downward in the LORD's presence for forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything. I did this because you had sinned against the LORD and had made him angry.

The prophet answered, "Even if you gave me half of your wealth, I would not go with you or eat or drink anything with you.

The LORD has commanded me not to eat or drink a thing, and not to return home the same way I came."

"No," he answered. "Not even soldiers you had captured in combat would you put to death. Give them something to eat and drink, and let them return to their king."