9. when I ascended onto the mountain, so that I might receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord formed with you. And I persevered on the mountain for forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water.
10. And the Lord gave me two tablets of stone, written with the finger of God and containing all the words that he spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of fire, while the people, being stirred up, were assembled together.
11. And when forty days, and as many nights, had passed, the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
12. And he said to me: 'Rise up, and descend quickly from here. For your people, whom you led away from Egypt, have quickly abandoned the way that you have shown to them, and they have made a molten idol for themselves.'
13. And again, the Lord said to me: 'I discern that this people is stiff-necked.
14. Depart from me, so that I may crush them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and appoint you over a nation, which will be greater and stronger than this one.'
15. And as I was descending from the burning mountain, and I held the two tablets of the covenant with both hands,
16. and I had seen that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made a molten calf for yourselves, and had quickly abandoned his way, which he had revealed to you,
17. I threw down the tablets from my hands, and I broke them in your sight.
18. And I fell prostrate before the Lord, just as before, for forty days and nights, not eating bread, and not drinking water, because of all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and because you provoked him to anger.
19. For I feared his indignation and wrath, which had been stirred up against you, so that he was willing to destroy you. And the Lord heeded me at this time also.
20. Likewise, he became vehemently angry against Aaron, and he was willing to destroy him, and I prayed for him similarly.
21. But as for your sin which you committed, that is, the calf, taking hold of it, I burned it with fire. And breaking it into pieces, and reducing it entirely to dust, I threw it into the torrent that descends from the mountain.
22. Likewise, at the Burning, and at the Temptation, and at the Graves of Lust, you provoked the Lord.
23. And when he sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, 'Ascend and possess the land, which I have given to you,' even so, you spurned the command of the Lord your God, and you did not believe him, nor were you willing to listen to his voice.
24. Instead, you were ever rebellious, from the day when I first began to know you.