⁷ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt,^(A) have become corrupt.^(B)

⁹ “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked^(A) people.

¹⁸ Moses replied:

¹⁹ When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf^(A) and the dancing,^(B) his anger burned^(C) and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces^(D) at the foot of the mountain.

²² “Do not be angry,^(A) my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil.^(B)

²⁵ Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock^(A) to their enemies.