24. Ever since I have known you, you have rebelled against the Lord.
25. “So I lay face downwards in the Lord's presence those forty days and nights, because I knew that he was determined to destroy you.
26. And I prayed, ‘Sovereign Lord, don't destroy your own people, the people you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your great strength and power.
27. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and do not pay any attention to the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of this people.
28. Otherwise, the Egyptians will say that you were unable to take your people into the land that you had promised them. They will say that you took your people out into the desert to kill them, because you hated them.
29. After all, these are the people whom you chose to be your own and whom you brought out of Egypt by your great power and might.’