⁸Even at Mount Horeb you made the Lord so angry that he wanted to destroy you. ⁹When I went up on the mountain to get the stone tablets, the tablets of the promise that the Lord made to you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights without food or water. ¹⁰Then the Lord gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by God himself. On them were written all the words that the Lord spoke to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.

¹¹At the end of the 40 days and 40 nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets with his promise on them. ¹²He told me, “Leave right away. Your people whom you brought out of Egypt have ruined ⸤everything⸥. They’ve quickly turned from the way I commanded them to live. They’ve made an idol for themselves.”

¹³The Lord also said to me, “I’ve seen these people, and they are impossible to deal with. ¹⁴Leave me alone! I’ll destroy them and wipe their name off the earth. Then I’ll make you into a nation larger and stronger than they are.”

¹⁵So I turned and went down the mountain while it was still burning with fire. I was carrying the two tablets with the promise on them. ¹⁶Then I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made a statue of a calf for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord commanded you to live. ¹⁷I took the two tablets, threw them down, and smashed them in front of you.

¹⁸Once again I threw myself down in front of the Lord. I went without food and water for 40 days and 40 nights because of the sin you committed. You did what the Lord considered evil and made him furious. ¹⁹I was terrified of the Lord’s anger and fury. He was so angry he wanted to destroy you. But once more the Lord listened to me.

²⁰The Lord also became very angry with Aaron and wanted to destroy him. But at that time I prayed for Aaron, too.

²¹I took that sinful calf you made and burned it. I crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was as fine as powder. Then I threw the powder into the river that flowed down the mountain.

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