Deuteronomy 9:23-25

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²³ And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, “Go up and occupy the land that I have given you,” you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God, neither trusting him nor obeying him. ²⁴ You have been rebellious against the Lord as long as he has^[a] known you.

²⁵ Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate before the Lord when the Lord intended to destroy you,