Deuteronomy 9:20
“And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.”
And I fell down before the Lord, 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 Lord, to provoke him to anger.
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.
And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth–hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.
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“And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.”
“Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.”
“And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?”
“For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;”
“And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.”