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"The ^(C1)LORD also said to ^(F1)me, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a ^(F2)(C2)stubborn people.

'^(C1)Leave Me alone, that I may destroy them and ^(C2)wipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'

"^(C1)So 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.

"And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God. You had made for yourselves a cast metal image of a calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

"So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands, and smashed them to pieces before your eyes!

"^(C1)Then I fell down before the LORD ^(C2)like the first time, for forty days and nights; ^(C3)I neither ate bread nor drank water, ^(C4)because of all your sin which you had committed by doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.

"For ^(C1)I was afraid of the anger and the rage with which the LORD was angry with you so as to destroy you; ^(C2)but the LORD listened to me that time as well.