11. And when forty days were passed, and as many nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,
12. And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten idol.
13. And again the Lord said to me: I see that this people is stiffnecked:
14. Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.
15. And when I came down from the burning mount, and held the two tables of the covenant with both hands,
16. And saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly forsaken his way, which he had shewn you:
17. I cast the tables out of my hands, and broke them in your sight.
18. And I fell down before the Lord se before, forty days and nights neither eating bread, nor drinking water, for all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and had provoked him to wrath:
19. For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved against you, he would have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this time also.
20. And he was exceeding angry against Aaron also, and would have destroyed him, and I prayed in like manner for him.