Deuteronomy 9:7–12

The Golden Calf

⁷Remember this and never forget how you aroused the anger^z of the Lord your God in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious^a against the Lord.^{b 8}At Horeb you aroused the Lord’s wrath^c so that he was angry enough to destroy you.^{d 9}When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant^e that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days^f and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.^{g 10}The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.^h On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.ⁱ

¹¹At the end of the forty days and forty nights,^j the Lord gave me the two stone tablets,^k the tablets of the covenant. ¹²Then the Lord told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt.^l They have turned away quickly^m from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”