8. You made the Lord angry at Mount Horeb. The Lord was angry enough to destroy you!
9. I went up the mountain to get the stone tablets. The agreement that the Lord made with you was written on those stones. I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat any food or drink any water.
10. The Lord gave me the two stone tablets. He wrote his commands on the stones with his finger. The Lord wrote everything he said to you from the fire when you were gathered together at the mountain.
11. “So at the end of 40 days and 40 nights, the Lord gave me two stone tablets—the stones of the agreement.
12. Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up and quickly go down from here. The people you brought out of Egypt have ruined themselves. They stopped obeying my commands so quickly. They melted gold and made an idol for themselves.’
13. “The Lord also said to me, ‘I have watched these people. They are very stubborn!
14. Let me destroy these people completely, so no one will even remember their names. Then I will make another nation from you that is stronger and greater than these people.’