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Rh it is a stiffnecked people; let Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.' So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the your God; ye had made you a molten calf; ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the  had commanded you. And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. And I fell down before the, 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 the , to provoke Him. For I was in dread of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the was wroth against you to destroy you. But the hearkened unto me that time also. Moreover the was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and beat it in pieces, 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.—And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye made the wroth. And when the sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying: 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you'; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the  your God, and ye believed Him not, nor hearkened to His voice. Ye have been rebellious against the from the day that I knew you.— So I fell down before the  the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the  had said He would destroy you. And I prayed unto the, and said: 'O Lord , 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. Remember Thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin; lest the land whence Thou broughtest us out say: Because the was not able to bring them into the land which He promised unto them, and because He hated them, He hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. Yet they are Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou didst bring out by Thy great power and by Thy outstretched arm.'

At that time the said unto me: 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto Me into the mount; and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt put them in the ark.' So I made an ark of acacia-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand. And He wrote on the tables according to the first writing, the ten words, which the spoke unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the  gave them unto me. And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made;