So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.’

And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.