Deuteronomy 9:11

"And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people: let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they. So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my hands. And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you."

The critics have a lot of problems with this. Like any old man telling what happened years ago, Moses pays little respect to strict chronological sequence of things mentioned, but nobody present could have missed the point of his sermon. Wright spoke of some who attempt to split the passage on the basis of some pronouns being plural and some singular, but that is simply the way Moses talked. We are glad that Wright admitted this possibility, saying, "The constantly shifting pronouns seem to be a rather precarious guide for sure and certain results in literary criticism!"[24] Well, what are the dependable guides? There really are no fully dependable guides, but such things as style, vocabulary, etc. are far better than the pronoun that crutch the critics rely on here. Why don't they follow the style and vocabulary route here? It proves that Moses is the author! "Such reasons as convenience and fitness to the argument sufficiently explain the variations one finds when this chapter is minutely compared with Exodus 32-34."[25]