Deuteronomy 9:17-19

The Voice

¹⁷ Right before your eyes I took the two tablets, hurled them onto the ground, and smashed them to pieces. ¹⁸ I went back up the mountain, and for another 40 days and nights I prostrated myself before Him, lying face down on the ground in grief and petition, not eating or drinking anything as before. You had sinned so seriously—you did what the Eternal had just told you was wrong, and this made Him furious! ¹⁹ I was afraid^[a] He was so violently angry with you that He’d destroy you, as He said He would. But one more time, the Eternal One listened to me, and He spared you.