17. I threw down the tablets from my hands, and I broke them in your sight.
18. And I fell prostrate before the Lord, just as before, for forty days and nights, not eating bread, and not drinking water, because of all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and because you provoked him to anger.
19. For I feared his indignation and wrath, which had been stirred up against you, so that he was willing to destroy you. And the Lord heeded me at this time also.
20. Likewise, he became vehemently angry against Aaron, and he was willing to destroy him, and I prayed for him similarly.