Deuteronomy 9:6–13

6 Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a jstiff-necked 2people.

7 “Remember! Do not forget how you kprovoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. lFrom the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. 8 Also min Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you. 9 nWhen I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and oforty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 pThen the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire qin 3the day of the assembly. 11 And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

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

13 “Furthermore tthe Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed uthey are a 4stiff-necked people.