18 Then I Ex. 34:28;[Ps. 106:23] lay prostrate before the Lordver. 9;ch. 10:10as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, ch. 4:25in 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. ch. 10:10;Ex. 32:14;33:17But the Lord listened to me that time also.
25 [See ver. 18above]"So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you. 26 See Ex. 32:11-13And 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.