Deu 9:18-20, 26-29, Psa 106:23 | ESV | STEP | Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before , forty days and forty nights . I neither ate bread nor drank water , because of all the sin that you had committed , in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger .

Deuteronomy 9:18-20

18 Then I ^alay prostrate before the Lord ^bas before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, ^cin doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger. 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the Lord bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. ^dBut the Lord listened to me that time also. 20 And the Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

Deuteronomy 9:26-29

26 ^eAnd I prayed to the Lord, ‘O Lord God, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin, 28 lest the land from which you brought us say, ^f“Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.” 29 ^gFor they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’

Psalms 106:23

23 Therefore ^hhe said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his ⁱchosen one,
^jstood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.