Exodus 32:12-19

New International Version

¹² Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’?^(A) Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster^(B) on your people. ¹³ Remember^(C) your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self:^(D) ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars^(E) in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land^(F) I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’” ¹⁴ Then the Lord relented^(G) and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

¹⁵ Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law^(H) in his hands.^(I) They were inscribed^(J) on both sides, front and back. ¹⁶ The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.^(K)

¹⁷ When Joshua^(L) heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”

¹⁸ Moses replied:

¹⁹ When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf^(M) and the dancing,^(N) his anger burned^(O) and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces^(P) at the foot of the mountain.