19. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was wrathful against you in order to destroy you, but the Lord listened to me that time also.
20. The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.
21. I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.
22. "Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.
23. 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 command of the Lord your God; you neither believed Him nor listened 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 the forty days and nights, which I did because the Lord had said He would destroy you.
26. I prayed to the Lord and said, 'O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom 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 had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them 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.'