21 I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath.
23 When the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and you didn’t believe him, nor listen to his voice.
24 You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
25 So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the Lord had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed to the Lord, and said, “Lord GOD, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,