¹¹ But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God: “Lord, why does your anger burn against your people you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a strong hand? ¹² Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He brought them out with an evil intent to kill them in the mountains and eliminate them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger and relent concerning this disaster planned for your people.^{(A) 13} Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel—you swore to them by yourself^(B) and declared, ‘I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it forever.’”^(C)

The Twelve Apostles

¹² During those days he went out to the mountain to pray^(A) and spent all night in prayer to God.