Deuteronomy 9:8-16

MSTC(i) 8 Also in Horeb ye angered the LORD so that the LORD was wroth with you, even to have destroyed you, 9 after that I was gone up into the mount, to fetch the tables of stone, the tables of covenant which the LORD made with you. And I abode in the hill forty days and forty nights and neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 And the LORD delivered me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and in them was according to all the words which the LORD said unto you in the mount out of the fire in the day when the people were gathered together. 11 And when the forty days and forty nights were ended, the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, 12 and said unto me, 'Up, and get thee down quickly from hence, for thy people which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have marred themselves. They are turned at once out of the way, which I commanded them, and have made them a god of metal.' 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, 'I see this people how that it is a stiff-necked people; 14 let me alone that I may destroy them and put out the name of them from under heaven, and I will make of thee a nation both greater and more than they.' 15 And I turned away and came down from the hill — and the hill burnt with fire — and had the two tables of the covenant in my hands. 16 And when I looked and saw that ye had sinned against the LORD your God and had made you a calf of metal and had turned at once out of the way which the LORD had commanded you;