Deuteronomy 9:18-29

Deuteronomy 9:18-29

[18] And I fell down  before  the LORD,  as at the first,  forty  days  and forty  nights:  I did neither eat  bread,  nor drink  water,  because of all your sins  which ye sinned,  in doing  wickedly  in the sight  of the LORD,  to provoke him to anger.  [19] For I was afraid  of  the anger  and hot displeasure,  wherewith the LORD  was wroth  against you to destroy  you. But the LORD  hearkened  unto me at that time  [20] And the LORD  was very  angry  with Aaron  to have destroyed  him: and I prayed  for Aaron  also the same time.  [21] And I took  your sin,  the calf  which ye had made,  and burnt  it with fire,  and stamped  it, and ground  it very small,  as dust:  and I cast  the dust  thereof into the brook  that descended out  of the mount.  [22] And at Taberah,  and at Massah,  and at Kibrothhattaavah,  ye provoked the LORD  to wrath.  [23] Likewise when the LORD  sent  you from Kadeshbarnea,  saying,  Go up  and possess  the land  which I have given  you; then ye rebelled  against the commandment  of the LORD  your God,  and ye believed  him not, nor hearkened  to his voice.  [24] Ye have been rebellious  against the LORD  from the day  that I knew  [25] Thus I fell down  before  the LORD  forty  days  and forty  nights,  as I fell down  at the first; because the LORD  had said  he would destroy  [26] I prayed  therefore unto the LORD,  and said,  O Lord  destroy  not thy people  and thine inheritance,  which thou hast redeemed  through thy greatness,  which thou hast brought forth  out of Egypt  with a mighty  hand.  [27] Remember  thy servants,  Abraham,  Isaac,  and Jacob;  look  not unto the stubbornness  of this people,  nor to their wickedness,  nor to their sin:  [28] Lest the land  whence thou broughtest us out  say,  Because the LORD  was not able  to bring  them into the land  which he promised  them, and because he hated  them, he hath brought them out  to slay  them in the wilderness.  [29] Yet they are thy people  and thine inheritance,  which thou broughtest out  by thy mighty  power  and by thy stretched out  arm.