15. So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16. And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
17. And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
18. And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
19. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also.
20. And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21. And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22. And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.
23. And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24. Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.
25. So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
26. And I prayed unto Jehovah, and said, O Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, that thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.