Deuteronomy 9:9-25

⁹ 'In my going up into the mount to receive the tables of stone (tables of the covenant which Jehovah hath made with you), and I abide in the mount forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk; ¹⁰ and Jehovah giveth unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them according to all the words which Jehovah hath spoken with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly. ¹¹ 'And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, Jehovah hath given unto me the two tables of stone—tables of the covenant, ¹² and Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go down, hasten from this, for thy people hath done corruptly, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt; they have turned aside hastily out of the way which I have commanded them—they have made to themselves a molten thing! ¹³ 'And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it 'is'; ¹⁴ desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty and numerous than it. ¹⁵ 'And I turn, and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands, ¹⁶ and I see, and lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah your God; ye have made to yourselves a molten calf; ye have turned aside hastily out of the way which Jehovah hath commanded you. ¹⁷ 'And I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes, ¹⁸ and I throw myself before Jehovah, as at first, forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk, because of all your sins which ye have sinned, by doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry. ¹⁹ 'For I have been afraid because of the anger and the fury with which Jehovah hath been wroth against you, to destroy you; and Jehovah doth hearken unto me also at this time. ²⁰ 'And with Aaron hath Jehovah shewed himself very angry, to destroy him, and I pray also for Aaron at that time; ²¹ and your sin, which ye have made—the calf—I have taken, and I burn it with fire, and beat it, grinding well till that it 'is' small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount. ²² 'And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth: ²³ and in Jehovah's sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up, and possess the land which I have given to you, then ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, and have not given credence to Him, nor hearkened to His voice; ²⁴ rebels ye have been with Jehovah from the day of my knowing you. ²⁵ 'And I throw myself before Jehovah, the forty days and the forty nights, as I had thrown myself, for Jehovah hath said—to destroy you;