7Remember, do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the wilderness, from the day you came out from the land of Egypt until you came to this place; you have been rebelling with the LORD.8At Horeb you provoked the LORD to anger, and the LORD became angry with you so as to destroy you.9When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no food and drank no water.10The LORD gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God, containing all the words that the LORD spoke to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly.11At the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.12The LORD said to me, Rise, go down quickly from this, for your people whom you brought out from Egypt have turned aside quickly from the way which I commanded them; they have made a calf for themselves.13The LORD said to me, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people."14Leave me alone so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they.15So I turned and came down from the mountain while it was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were on my two hands.16I saw, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made a calf for yourselves; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD commanded you.17I seized the two tablets, threw them down from my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.18I fell before the LORD as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I ate no food and drank no water, on account of all your sin which you sinned by doing what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, to provoke him.19For I feared the anger and the rage with which the LORD was angry with you to destroy you, yet the LORD listened to me also at that time.20The LORD was very angry with Aaron and intended to destroy him, but I also interceded for Aaron at that time.21I took your sin which you committed, the calf; I burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was crushed to dust, and I threw its dust into the torrent going down from the mountain.22At Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you were provoking the LORD to anger.23When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, "Go up and possess the land which I gave you," you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God and did not trust him and did not listen to his voice.24You have been rebelling with the LORD from the day I first knew you.25I lay prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights because he had declared his intention to destroy you.26I prayed to the LORD and said, O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your inheritance which you ransomed by your greatness, which you brought out from Egypt by a strong hand.27Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not turn to the stubbornness of this people, or to their wickedness, or to their sin.28Otherwise those from which you brought us will say that the LORD was unable to bring them into the land and that, because he hated them, he led them out to die in the wilderness.29They are your people and your inheritance which you brought out by your great strength and by your outstretched arm.