Deuteronomy 9:16-21 And when I saw that you had sinned before the Lord your God, and that you had made for yourselves a molten image, and had turned aside from the way in which the Lord had commanded you to walk;

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ And when I saw that you had sinned before the Lord your God, and that you had made for yourselves a molten image, and had turned aside from the way in which the Lord had commanded you to walk; ¹⁷ having hold of the two tables, I threw them out of my hands and broke them before your eyes. ¹⁸ Then I made supplication before the Lord, a second time, as I had done before, forty days and forty nights; [I neither ate bread nor drank water]; for your sins which you had committed by doing evil in the sight of the Lord God, to provoke him to wrath. ¹⁹ Even now I tremble on account of the wrath and indignation. For the anger of the Lord was kindled against you, to destroy you utterly. But the Lord hearkened to me at that time also. ²⁰ Even against Aaron, his wrath was kindled to destroy him; But I prayed for Aaron also at that time. ²¹ Now I had taken your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire; and having stamped, and ground it, till it was very fine, and like dust, I threw the dust into the torrent which ran down out of the mount.