Deuteronomy 9:24-26

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁴ You have been rebellious against the Lord as long as he has^[a] known you.

²⁵ Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate before the Lord when the Lord intended to destroy you, ²⁶ I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘Lord God, do not destroy the people who are your very own possession, whom you redeemed in your greatness, whom you brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.