1You know the sacred scriptures, beloved, and you know them well, and you have looked into the oracles of God.
2Therefore, we write these things to you as a reminder.
3When Moses went up to the mountain and spent forty days and forty nights in fasting and humiliation, God said to him: Moses, Moses, go down quickly from here, because your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have committed transgression.
4And Moses said: Lord, if you will forgive their sin, forgive; but if not, blot me also out of the book of the living.