32:19 When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. 1 He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain. 2
9:15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it 3 was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. 9:16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; 4 you had quickly turned aside from the way he 5 had commanded you! 9:17 I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, 6 and shattered them before your very eyes.
1 tn Heb “and the anger of Moses burned hot.”
2 sn See N. M. Waldham, “The Breaking of the Tablets,” Judaism 27 (1978): 442-47.
3 tn Heb “the mountain.” The translation uses a pronoun for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
4 tn On the phrase “metal calf,” see note on the term “metal image” in v. 12.
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn The Hebrew text includes “from upon my two hands,” but as this seems somewhat obvious and redundant, it has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons.