{"versions": [{"status": "locked", "priority": 4.0, "license": "CC-BY-NC", "versionNotes": "", "formatAsPoetry": "", "digitizedBySefaria": true, "method": "", "heversionSource": "", "versionUrl": "", "versionTitleInHebrew": "", "versionNotesInHebrew": "", "shortVersionTitle": "H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004", "shortVersionTitleInHebrew": "", "extendedNotes": "", "extendedNotesHebrew": "", "purchaseInformationImage": "", "purchaseInformationURL": "", "hasManuallyWrappedRefs": "", "language": "en", "versionSource": "https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH001102376/NLI", "versionTitle": "Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004", "actualLanguage": "en", "languageFamilyName": "english", "isSource": false, "isPrimary": false, "direction": "ltr", "text": ["AND HE WAS THERE. Many think that Moses spent eighty days on the mountain until God gave him the tablets.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">215</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Forty days for the first tablets and 40 days in prayer (Deut. 9:18), which culminated with the giving of the second tablets (Krinsky). It should be noted that while I.E. rejects this opinion here, he appears to accept it in Deut. 10:1 (Sarim).</i> They are mistaken. On the contrary, the words of our ancient sages<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">216</sup><i class=\"footnote\">According to the sages of the Talmud, Moses spent 120 days on Sinai. See <i>Shemot Rabbah</i> 47:12.</i> are, as I have already noted, correct.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">217</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See I.E. on Ex. 33:10.</i> Look, Moses spent forty days on the mountain until God gave him the first tablets. Scripture clearly states, <i>and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights</i> (Ex. 24:18).<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">218</sup><i class=\"footnote\">This is stated with regard to the first tablets.</i> Moses himself similarly states, <i>So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and forty nights</i> (Deut. 9:25).<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">219</sup><i class=\"footnote\">In prayer on behalf of Israel. The rabbis assume that this took place on mount Sinai, for Scripture states <i>before the Lord</i>.</i> Moses then<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">220</sup><i class=\"footnote\">At the end of the 40 days of prayer.</i> said everything that is recorded in the section starting with the words <i>See Thou sayest unto me</i> (Ex. 33:12). Moses then descended and hewed the tablets and personally brought them up to Mount Sinai. Observe, Scripture states, <i>And the Lord passed by before him</i> (v. 6), and later goes on to say, <i>And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water</i>. As was his practice the first time, so was his practice the second time.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">221</sup><i class=\"footnote\">As Moses spent 40 days on Sinai the first time, so did he spend 40 days the second time. Moses thus spent 120 days on Sinai, 80 days when receiving the tablets and 40 in prayer.</i>", "AND HE WROTE UPON THE TABLES. God wrote upon the tablets,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">222</sup><i class=\"footnote\">According to I.E. the subject of <i>va-yikhtov</i> (and He wrote) is God.</i> for Scripture explicitly states, <i>and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou didst break</i> (v. 1)."]}], "available_versions": [{"status": "locked", "priority": 4.0, "license": "CC-BY-NC", "versionNotes": "", "formatAsPoetry": "", "digitizedBySefaria": true, "method": "", "heversionSource": "", "versionUrl": "", "versionTitleInHebrew": "", "versionNotesInHebrew": "", "shortVersionTitle": "H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. 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