9Deuteronomy 9:17

15So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.Select Deuteronomy 9:15

16And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.Select Deuteronomy 9:16

17And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.Select Deuteronomy 9:17

18And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.Select Deuteronomy 9:18

19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.Select Deuteronomy 9:19