21. I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small until it was as small as dust. Then I threw the dust into the brook that descended down from the mountain.
22. Also at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.
23. Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and you did not believe Him or listen to His voice.
24. You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day I knew you.
25. So I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights; I fell down because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
26. I prayed therefore to the Lord, and said, “O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, which You have redeemed through Your greatness, which You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27. Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin.
28. Otherwise, the land from which You brought us may say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them and because He hated them, He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.’
29. Yet they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your stretched-out arm.”