The plans for the tabernacle and its ministry were also revealed to the Israelite leader. As Moses recounted this glorious event before Israel’s second generation almost forty years later, he told them that he had been on the mount forty days and nights without bread or water (Deuteronomy 9:9). When Moses was ready to take the tablets of Testimony down the mount, God told him that the people had molded a calf and were worshiping it (Exodus 32:7–35). God threatened to destroy them, but their leader