9. When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate food nor drank water.
10. And the Lord delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11. And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.
12. And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image.
13. Furthermore the Lord said to me, I have seen this people, and behold, they are stubborn and hard.
14. Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
15. So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16. And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.
17. I took the two tables, cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.