23. Then the Lord sent you away from Kadesh Barnea and said, “Go up and take the land I have given you.” But you rejected the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust him or obey him.
24. You have refused to obey the Lord as long as I have known you.
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, whom you freed and brought out of Egypt by your great power and strength.