Deuteronomy 9:18-29 ▼

18 And I shall fall down before Jehovah as at the first; forty days and forty nights I ate not bread and I drank not water on account of all your sins that ye sinned to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to provoke him.

19 For I was afraid from the face of the anger and emotion with which Jehovah was angry against you to destroy you. And Jehovah will hear to me also in this time.

20 And with Aaron Jehovah was greatly angry to destroy him: and I shall pray also for Aaron in that time.

21 And the sin that ye made, the calf, I took and I shall burn it with fire, and beat it, and grinding small till it was beat small to dust: and I shall cast its dust into the torrent going down from the mount.

22 And in Taberah and in Massah, and in Kibroth Hatavah, ye were provoking Jehovah to anger.

23 And in Jehovah's sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying; Go ye up and possess the land which I gave to you: and ye will rebel against the mouth of Jehovah your God, and ye trusted not to him, and ye heard not to his voice.

24 And ye were rebelling against Jehovah from the day I knew you.

25 And I shall fall down before Jehovah forty days and forty nights, as I fell down; for Jehovah said to destroy you.

26 And I shall pray to Jehovah, and say, Lord Jehovah, thou wilt not destroy thy people and thine inheritance which thou didst redeem in thy greatness, whom thou broughtest out of Egypt with a strong hand.

27 Remember thy servants, for Abraham, for Isaak, and for Jacob, thou wilt not look to the stubbornness of this people, and to its wickedness, and to its sin:

28 Lest they of the land where thou broughtest us from there shall say, For Jehovah was not able to bring them in to the land which he spake to them; and for his hating them he brought them out to destroy them in the desert.

29 And they are thy people and thine inheritance whom thou broughtest out by thy great strength and by thine extended arm.