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.^{(A) 27} Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look upon the stubbornness of this people nor upon their wickedness and sin,^{(B) 28} lest the land from which you have brought us say, “The Lord was not able to bring them into the land he promised them, and out of hatred for them, he brought them out to let them die in the wilderness.”^{(C) 29} They are your people and your heritage, whom you have brought out by your great power and with your outstretched arm.^(D)

^11 [a]But Moses implored the Lord, his God, saying,^(A) “Why, O Lord, should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? ¹² Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent he brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning wrath; change your mind about punishing your people. ¹³ Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying,^(B) ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’” ¹⁴ So the Lord changed his mind about the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people.