Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell down before the Yahuah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Yahuah, to provoke him to anger.
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16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Yahuah your Elohim, had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Yahuah had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the Yahuah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Yahuah, to provoke him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Yahuah was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Yahuah hearkened unto me at that time also.
20 And the Yahuah was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.