7Remember, and do not forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came unto this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. 8Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you. 9When I had gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone of the covenant which the LORD made with you, I abode in the mount forty days and nights, I ate neither bread nor drank water: 10And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 11And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant. 12And the LORD said to me, “Arise, get you down quickly from here; for your people whom you brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; and they have made them a molten image.” 13Furthermore, the LORD said to me, “I have seen this people, and it is a stiff-necked people: 14Let Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you (Moses) a nation mightier and greater than they.” 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. 16And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made a melted calf; you had quickly turned aside out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread, nor drank water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. 19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was angry with you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened to me at that time also. 20And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 21And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, until it was as small as dust: and I cast its dust into the brook that descended out of the mount.

22And at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the LORD to wrath. 23Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you believed Him not, nor hearkened to His voice. 24You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

25Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said He would destroy you. 26I prayed, therefore, unto the LORD, and said, “O LORD God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: 28Lest the land where You brought us out say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness”. 29Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm”.