13. Remember the men who served you—Abraham, Isaac and Israel. You promised with an oath to them. You said, ‘I will make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised them. It will be theirs forever.’”
14. So the Lord changed his mind. He did not destroy the people as he had said he might.
15. Then Moses went down the mountain. In his hands he had the two stone tablets with the agreement on them. The commands were written on both sides of each stone, front and back.
16. God himself had made the stones. And God himself had written the commands on the stones.