# General Information: Moses resumes reminding the people of Israel about what happened in the past. # as at the first time "first" is the ordinal number for one. Here it refers to the first time Moses went up Mount Sinai to receive the stone tablets from Yahweh. "as I did the first time" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]]) # forty days and forty nights "40 days and 40 nights" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]]) # destroy you Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the word "you" here is singular. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-you]])