¹⁶ And I looked,^[a] and indeed you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made for yourselves an image of a calf of cast metal; ^[b] you had turned quickly from the way that Yahweh had commanded for you. ¹⁷ And I took hold of the two tablets, and I threw them out of^[c] my two hands and smashed them before your eyes. ¹⁸ And then I lay prostrate before^[d] Yahweh, as earlier, forty days^[e] and forty nights;^[f] I did not eat food and I did not drink water because of all your sins that you committed, by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh and so provoking him.