Deuteronomy 9:13-18

New King James Version

¹³ “Furthermore ^(A)the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed ^(B)they are a ^[a]stiff-necked people. ^14 (C)Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and ^(D)blot out their name from under heaven; ^(E)and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

^15 (F)“So I turned and came down from the mountain, and ^(G)the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. ¹⁶ And ^(H)I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. ¹⁷ Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and ^(I)broke them before your eyes. ¹⁸ And I ^(J)fell^[b] down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.