[16] 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. [17] And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. [18] 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. [19] 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 [20] And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. [21] And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. [22] And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. [23] Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. [24] Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew