12. And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, go down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them: they have made for themselves a molten image.
13. And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
14. Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
15. And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16. And I saw, and behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God ye had made for yourselves a molten calf; ye had quickly turned aside from the way which Jehovah had commanded you.
17. And I seized the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
18. And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, --I ate no bread and drank no water, --because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing what is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
19. For I was afraid of the anger and fury wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. And Jehovah listened unto me also at that time.