7. Don't ever forget how you kept rebelling and making the Lord angry the whole time you were in the desert. You rebelled from the day you left Egypt until the day you arrived here.
8. At Mount Sinai you made the Lord so angry that he was going to destroy you.
12. he said:Moses, hurry down the mountain to those people you led out of Egypt. They have already disobeyed me and committed the terrible sin of making an idol.
13. I've been watching the Israelites, and I've seen how stubborn and rebellious they are.
14. So don't try to stop me! I am going to wipe them out, and no one on earth will remember they ever lived. Then I will let your descendants become an even bigger and more powerful nation than Israel.
15. Fire was raging on the mountaintop as I went back down, carrying the two stones with the commandments on them.
16. I saw how quickly you had sinned and disobeyed the Lord your God. There you were, worshipping the metal idol you had made in the shape of a calf.
17. So I threw down the two stones and smashed them before your very eyes.
21. It was a sin for you to make that idol, so I threw it into the fire to melt it down. Then I took the lump of gold, ground it into powder, and threw the powder into the stream flowing down the mountain.
22. You also made the Lord angry when you were staying at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-Hattaavah.
23. Then at Kadesh-Barnea the Lord said, “I am giving you the land, so go ahead and take it!” But since you didn't trust the Lord, you rebelled and disobeyed his command.
24. In fact, you've rebelled against the Lord for as long as he has known you.
25. After you had made the idol in the shape of a calf, the Lord said he was going to destroy you. So I bowed down in front of the sacred tent for forty days and nights,