³¹ So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed!^(A) They have made themselves gods of gold.^(B)

³² But now, please forgive their sin^(A)—but if not, then blot me^(B) out of the book^(C) you have written.”

²⁹ Now Moses said to Hobab^(A) son of Reuel^(B) the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law,^(C) “We are setting out for the place about which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’^(D) Come with us and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”

²⁹ But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets^(A) and that the Lord would put his Spirit^(B) on them!”^(C)

¹⁸ Then once again I fell^(A) prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water,^(B) because of all the sin you had committed,^(C) doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger.