Deuteronomy 9:8-21

8Even 1at Horeb you provoked the Lord to anger, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you. 9When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I remained on the mountain for forty days and nights; 2I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10The Lord gave me the two tablets of stone 3written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. 11It came about 4at the end of forty days and nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 125Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, because your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have behaved corruptly. They have 6quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast metal image for themselves.’ 13The 7Lord also said to 8me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a 910stubborn people. 1411Leave Me alone, that I may destroy them and 12wipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

15“13So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a cast metal image of a calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way that the Lord had commanded you. 17So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands, and smashed them to pieces before your eyes! 1814Then I fell down before the Lord 15like the first time, for forty days and nights; 16I neither ate bread nor drank water, 17because of all your sin which you had committed by doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 19For 18I was afraid of the anger and the rage with which the Lord was angry with you so as to destroy you; 19but the Lord listened to me that time as well. 20The Lord was also angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time. 2120And I took your 21sinful thing which you had made, the calf, and burned it in the fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.