Deuteronomy 9:24-26

New Century Version

²⁴ You have refused to obey the Lord as long as I have known you.

²⁵ The Lord had said he would destroy you, so I threw myself down in front of him for those forty days and forty nights. ²⁶ I prayed to the Lord and said, “Lord God, do not destroy your people, your own people, whom you freed and brought out of Egypt by your great power and strength.