When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, [even] the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Ver. 9. When I was gone up into the mount.] Sins are much aggravated by the circumstances; and every sin should swell as a toad in our eyes: we should bring them out, as they took the vessels of the temple, Ezr 8:34 "by number and by weight." See Leviticus 16:21; "all their transgressions in all their sins."