The Alternate Covenant Meal

God's deliverance of the Israelites was to have been celebrated by sacrifices and dining, but the Israelites have perverted it by jumping the gun. The loud noise that's heard in the camp below is, as Moses said, the sound of revelers. This seems to be some sort of a ritual pulverizing the calf, and scattering it implies first of all total annihilation. And so this is where Moses smashes the tablets, and this is the fifth point.