¹² Then the Lord told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt.^(A) They have turned away quickly^(B) from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”

¹³ And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people^(C), and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! ¹⁴ Let me alone,^(D) so that I may destroy them and blot out^(E) their name from under heaven.^(F) And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”