¹⁹ As he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became enraged and threw the tablets out of his hands, smashing them at the base of the mountain.

²⁸ Moses was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; he did not eat food or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments,^(A) the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

² I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you are to place them in the ark.”

⁴ Then on the day of the assembly, the Lord wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that he had spoken to you on the mountain from the fire. The Lord gave them to me,