17. I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18. I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
19. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
20. Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21. I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
22. At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
23. When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him, nor listen to his voice.
24. You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
25. So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
26. I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
28. lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
29. Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”