And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, Exodus 32:31; 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. It was an act of intense and continued intercession without parallel in the annals of mere human beings by which Moses succeeded in gaining the Lord's consent to forgive the people and to accept them as His children once more.

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