12. And he said to me: 'Rise up, and descend quickly from here. For your people, whom you led away from Egypt, have quickly abandoned the way that you have shown to them, and they have made a molten idol for themselves.'
13. And again, the Lord said to me: 'I discern that this people is stiff-necked.
14. Depart from me, so that I may crush them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and appoint you over a nation, which will be greater and stronger than this one.'
15. And as I was descending from the burning mountain, and I held the two tablets of the covenant with both hands,