And he said to him, So says Jehovah, Because you have sent away the man I had devoted from your hand, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.
And the man of God was angry with him, and said, By striking five or six times, then you would have stricken Syria until it was finished; but now, you shall strike Syria three times.
And it happened, as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and dances, the anger of Moses was hot. And he threw the tablets from his hands, and he broke them below the mountain.
And Moses sought carefully for the goat of the sin offering; and, behold, it had been burned! And he was angry against Eleazar and against Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, saying,
And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands, and commanders of fifties; and to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make weapons for war for him, and weapons for his charioteer.