Deuteronomy 9:18-25

New King James Version

¹⁸And I ^(A)fell^[a] down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. ¹⁹^(B)For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. ^(C)But the Lord listened to me at that time also. ²⁰And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. ²¹Then 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 fine as dust; and I ^(D)threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

²²“Also at ^(E)Taberah and ^(F)Massah and ^(G)Kibroth Hattaavah you ^[b]provoked the Lord to wrath. ²³Likewise, ^(H)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 ^(I)you did not believe Him nor obey His voice. ²⁴^(J)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

²⁵^(K)“Thus I ^[c]prostrated myself before the Lord; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said He would destroy you.

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Deuteronomy 9:18 prostrated myself
Deuteronomy 9:22 caused the Lord to be angry
Deuteronomy 9:25 fell down

Deuteronomy 9:18-25

New International Version

¹⁸Then once again I fell^(A) prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water,^(B) because of all the sin you had committed,^(C) doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger. ¹⁹I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you.^(D) But again the Lord listened to me.^(E) ²⁰And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too. ²¹Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust^(F) and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.^(G)

²²You also made the Lord angry^(H) at Taberah,^(I) at Massah^(J) and at Kibroth Hattaavah.^(K)

²³And when the Lord sent you out from Kadesh Barnea,^(L) he said, “Go up and take possession^(M) of the land I have given you.” But you rebelled^(N) against the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust^(O) him or obey him. ²⁴You have been rebellious against the Lord ever since I have known you.^(P)