Deuteronomy 9:12-16 ▼

12 And he said to me, |Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.|

13 Moreover, he said to me, |I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!

14 Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.|

15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!