13. “Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people.
14. Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’
15. So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16. And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you.
17. So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.