⁸ Also ^(A)in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.

¹⁶ Now the ^(A)tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt ^(B)have corrupted themselves. ⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which ^(C)I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ^(D)‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ” ⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, ^(E)“I have seen this people, and indeed it is a ^[a]stiff-necked people! ¹⁰ Now therefore, ^(F)let Me alone, that ^(G)My wrath may burn hot against them and I may ^[b]consume them. And ^(H)I will make of you a great nation.”