Deuteronomy 9:7–12

⁷“Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; ^afrom the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

⁸“Even ^aat Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.

⁹“When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; ^aI neither ate bread nor drank water.

¹⁰“The Lord gave me the two tablets of stone ^awritten by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

¹¹“It came about ^aat the end of forty days and nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

¹²“^aThen the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have ^bquickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’