Keluaran 32:19

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 

Keluaran 33:4

33:4 When the people heard this troubling word ³  they mourned; ⁴  no one put on his ornaments.

[32:19]  ¹ tn Heb “and the anger of Moses burned hot.”

[32:19]  ² sn See N. M. Waldham, “The Breaking of the Tablets,” Judaism 27 (1978): 442-47.

[33:4]  ³ tn Or “bad news” (NAB, NCV).

[33:4]  ⁴ sn The people would rather have risked divine discipline than to go without Yahweh in their midst. So they mourned, and they took off the ornaments. Such had been used in making the golden calf, and so because of their association with all of that they were to be removed as a sign of remorse.