13. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You took an oath, swearing on yourself. You told them, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all the land I spoke of. It will be their permanent possession.’ ”
14. So the Lord reconsidered his threat to destroy his people.
15. Moses turned and went down the mountain carrying the two tablets with God’s words. They were written on both sides, front and back.
16. The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was God’s writing inscribed on the tablets.
17. Then Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting. He said to Moses, “It’s the sound of war in the camp!”
18. Moses replied,“It’s not the sound of winners shouting.It’s not the sound of losers crying.It’s the sound of a wild celebration that I hear.”