Ramban on Ki Sisa 33:17

English: I WILL DO THIS THING ALSO THAT THOU HAST SPOKEN. Perhaps this manifestation of Hashem’s good-will was at the end of the second [period of] forty days, in accordance with the opinion of our Rabbis, 491 See above in Verse 7 where Ramban quotes the Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer, that Moshe went up to the mountain for forty days only twice, the second time culminating on the Day of Atonement. This is Ramban’s intent in writing here “at the end of the second forty days according to the opinion of our Rabbis.” Rashi, quoted there, holds that there were three such periods. when the Holy One, blessed be He, became completely appeased with him, and He said to him, Hew thee two Tablets of stone like unto the fi