Chapter 9
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Remember, do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness, from the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place. You have been rebels against the LORD.
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And you provoked the LORD to anger, and the LORD was angry with you enough to destroy you.
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I ascended the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, and I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
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The LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them according to all the words which the LORD spoke with you on the mountain out from the midst of the fire on the day of the Assembly.
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And it was at the end of forty days and forty nights that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, tablets of the covenant.
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And the LORD said to me, "Rise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out from Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside from the way that you commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten image."
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The LORD said to me, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people."
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Let me go, and I will destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make you a nation—mighty and numerous—greater than they.
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And 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.
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And I saw, and behold, your sin against the LORD your God—you had made for yourselves a molten calf; you turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD commanded you.
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And I grasped the two tablets and hurled them from my two hands and broke them before your eyes.
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I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did not eat bread and I did not drink water, on account of all your sins which you sinned to do the evil in the eyes of the LORD, to provoke him.
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For I was afraid in the presence of the anger and wrath with which the LORD had kindled against you to destroy you, and the LORD listened to me at that time also.
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And the LORD was exceedingly angry with Aaron to destroy him, and I prayed on behalf of Aaron at that time.
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And the sin that you had made—the calf—I took it and burned it in the fire. And I crushed it, grinding it very well, until it was fine as dust, and I threw its dust into the wadi flowing down from the mountain.
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And at Taberah, at Massah, and at the Graves of Craving, you provoked the LORD.
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And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land that I have given to you," you rebelled against the mouth of the LORD your God, and you did not believe him, and you did not hear his voice.
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You have been rebels against the LORD from the day I knew you.
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And I fell down before the LORD for the forty days and forty nights, as I fell down, because the LORD said he would destroy you.
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And I prayed to the LORD and said, "Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your inheritance that you redeemed in your greatness, that you brought out from Egypt by a strong hand."
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Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not turn to the stubbornness of this people, or to its wickedness, or to its sin.
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lest they say, "The LORD was not able to bring them to the land that he promised them, and out of hatred for them he brought them out to destroy them in the wilderness."
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And they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.