Deuteronomy 9:23-25
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
23 And when the Lord sent you up from Kadesh-barnea saying, Go up and take possession of the land I have given you, you rebelled against this command of the Lord, your God, and would not believe him or listen to his voice.(A) 24 You have been rebels against the Lord from the day I first knew you.
25 (B)Those forty days, then, and forty nights, I lay prostrate before the Lord, because he had threatened to destroy you.
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