⁹ Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, ^(A)let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a ^(B)stiff-necked^[a] people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as ^(C)Your inheritance.”

¹⁸ And I ^(A)fell^[a] down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.