21. As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
22. Moreover, you continued to provoke the Lord at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
23. And when he sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God and would neither believe nor obey him.
24. You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!
25. I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.