Deuteronomy 9:8–21

⁸Also ^pin Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you. ^9qWhen I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount ^rforty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: ^10sAnd the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire ^tin the day of the assembly. ¹¹And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. ¹²And the Lord said unto me, ^uArise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are ^xquickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. ¹³Furthermore ^ythe Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, ^zit is a stiffnecked people: ^14aLet me alone, that I may destroy them, and ^bblot out their name from under heaven: ^cand I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. ^15dSo I turned and came down from the mount, and ^ethe mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. ¹⁶And ^fI looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you. ¹⁷And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. ¹⁸And I ^gfell down before the Lord, ^has at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, ⁱin doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. ¹⁹For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. ^jBut the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also. ²⁰And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. ²¹And ^kI 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.