17. `And I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes,
18. and I throw myself before Jehovah, as at first, forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk, because of all your sins which ye have sinned, by doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry.
19. `For I have been afraid because of the anger and the fury with which Jehovah hath been wroth against you, to destroy you; and Jehovah doth hearken unto me also at this time.
20. `And with Aaron hath Jehovah shewed himself very angry, to destroy him, and I pray also for Aaron at that time;
21. and your sin, which ye have made--the calf--I have taken, and I burn it with fire, and beat it, grinding well till that it [is] small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount.
22. `And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:
23. and in Jehovah's sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up, and possess the land which I have given to you, then ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, and have not given credence to Him, nor hearkened to His voice;
24. rebels ye have been with Jehovah from the day of my knowing you.
25. `And I throw myself before Jehovah, the forty days and the forty nights, as I had thrown myself, for Jehovah hath said--to destroy you;