* I fell down.
   The transgressions of the people rendered this second forty
   days' fasting necessary to Moses.  Their pardon was indeed in
   some sense obtained before he ascended the mount; yet probably
   much of the time which he spent there was employed in
   supplication:  and when he descended the second time, with the
   tables of the law in his hands, the pardon was, as it were,
   ratified and sealed.

  9  Ex 32:10-14  34:28  2Sa 12:16  Ps 106:23