12. But if you destroy your people, the Egyptians will say, ‘God planned to do bad things to his people. That is why he led them out of Egypt. He wanted to kill them in the mountains. He wanted to wipe them off the earth.’ So don’t be angry with your people. Please change your mind! Don’t destroy them.
13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. These men served you, and you used your name to make a promise to them. You said, ‘I will make your people as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your people all this land as I promised. This land will be theirs forever.’”
14. So the Lord felt sorry for the people. He did not do what he said he might do—he did not destroy them.
15. Then Moses went down the mountain. He had the two stone tablets with the agreement on them. The commandments were written on both sides of the stone, front and back.
16. God himself made the stones, and God himself wrote the commandments on them.
17. Joshua heard the noise from the party in camp. He said to Moses, “It sounds like war down in the camp!”