Moses’ Entreaty

¹¹ Then ^(A)Moses entreated the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? ¹² Why should ^(B)the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and change Your mind about doing harm to Your people.

²⁰ Now, O Lord our God, ^(A)deliver us from his hand that ^(B)all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, Lord, ^[a]are God.”

² And it came about, ^[a]when it had ^(A)finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,

⁵ Then I said,