12. Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath and relent of this harm against Your people.
13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’ ”
14. Then the Lord relented of the harm which He said He would do to His people.
15. Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of testimony in his hand. The tablets were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.
16. The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing, engraved on the tablets.
17. When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a sound of war in the camp.”
18. But he said: “It is not the sound of those who shout for victory,nor is it the sound of those who cry because of being overcome,but I hear the sound of singing.”