Deuteronomy 9:25-29 - Moses' Plea On Behalf Of The Lord's Reputation
25 So I fell down prostrate before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights. I did this because Jehovah said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed to Jehovah and said: 'O Jehovah our God, do not destroy your people for they are your inheritance. You have redeemed them through your greatness. You brought them out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look at the stubbornness of this people or at their wickedness or their sin. 28 The land from which you brought us may say: Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land he promised them and because he hated them he has brought them out to slay them in the desert wilderness. 29 Even now they are your people, your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great power and outstretched arm.