13. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Remember the solemn promise you made to them to give them as many descendants as there are stars in the sky and to give their descendants all that land you promised would be their possession for ever.”
14. So the Lord changed his mind and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
15. Moses went back down the mountain, carrying the two stone tablets with the commandments written on both sides.
16. God himself had made the tablets and had engraved the commandments on them.
17. Joshua heard the people shouting and said to Moses, “I hear the sound of battle in the camp.”
18. Moses said, “That doesn't sound like a shout of victory or a cry of defeat; it's the sound of singing.”