You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear and pay attention to the [cases of the] least [important] as well as the great. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you [to judge], you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

by driving out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken.

So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands and smashed them before your very eyes!

I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it in the fire and thoroughly crushed it, grinding the metal thoroughly until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.

“Now this is the case of the offender (manslayer) who may escape there and live [protected from vengeance]: when he kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him previously—

and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’