8. You provoked the Lord at Horeb, and He was angry enough with you to destroy you.
9. When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.
10. On the day of the assembly the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by God’s finger. The exact words were on them, which the Lord spoke to you from the fire on the mountain.
11. The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant, at the end of the 40 days and 40 nights.
12. “The Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go down immediately from here. For your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned from the way that I commanded them; they have made a cast image for themselves.’
13. The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.
14. Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’
15. “So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.