When Moses returned to his people, indignant and grieved, he said: “How wickedly you behaved in my absence. Why must you hasten the decree of your Lord?” And he cast aside the tablets, and pulled his brother by the hair. “O son of my mother,” said (Aaron), “these people took advantage of my weakness and almost killed me. Do not let my enemies rejoice at my plight, and do not put me down among transgressors.”