Deuteronomy 9:23-29 ▼

23 When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God; you did not believe Him, and you did not listen to His voice.

24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day I knew you.

25 “So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and the forty nights, which I did because Yahweh had said He would destroy you.

26 And I prayed to Yahweh and said, ‘O Lord Yahweh, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stiff-neck of this people or at their wickedness or their sin,

28 lest the land from which You brought us say, “Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”

29 Yet they are Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.’