22. At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah likewise, you enraged the Lord.
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.
24. You have been rebels against the Lord from the day I first knew you.
25. Those forty days, then, and forty nights, I lay prostrate before the Lord, because he had threatened to destroy you.
26. And I prayed to the Lord and said: O Lord God, do not destroy your people, the heritage you redeemed in your greatness and have brought out of Egypt with your strong hand.