¹⁸ Then Moses entered the midst of the cloud ^[a]as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain for ^(A)forty days and forty nights.

¹¹ It came about ^(A)at the end of forty days and nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. ^12 (B)Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, because your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have behaved corruptly. They have ^(C)quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast metal image for themselves.’