Deuteronomy 9:24-27
English Standard Version
25"So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you.
26And 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.
27Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,