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 [^Linheritance], whom you ·freed [ransomed; redeemed] and brought out of Egypt by your great power and ·strength [^Lstrong hand]. ²⁷ Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at how ·stubborn [hard] these people are, and don’t look at their sin and evil. ²⁸ Otherwise, ·Egypt [^Lthe land from which you brought us] will say, ‘It was because the Lord was not able to take his people into the land he promised them, and it was because he hated them that he took them into the ·desert [wilderness] to kill them.’ ²⁹ But they are your people, Lord, your ·own people [^Linheritance], whom you brought out of Egypt with your great power and ·strength [^Loutstretched arm].”