Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.(Deuteronomy 9:14)
So 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.(Deuteronomy 9:15)
And 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.(Deuteronomy 9:16)
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
And 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.(Deuteronomy 9:18)
For 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.(Deuteronomy 9:19)
And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.(Deuteronomy 9:20)
