15. So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16. I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a moulded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which the Lord had commanded you.
17. I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18. I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
19. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry against you to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.
20. The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21. I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
22. At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath.
23. When the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and you didn’t believe him, nor listen to his voice.
24. You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
25. So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the Lord had said he would destroy you.