Deuteronomy 9:9-18

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; 1I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10The Lord gave me the two tablets of stone 2written 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 3at the end of forty days and nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 124Then 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 5quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast metal image for themselves.’ 13The 6Lord also said to 7me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a 89stubborn people. 1410Leave Me alone, that I may destroy them and 11wipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

15“12So 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! 1813Then I fell down before the Lord 14like the first time, for forty days and nights; 15I neither ate bread nor drank water, 16because of all your sin which you had committed by doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.