7. “Remember and never forget how angry you made the lord your God out in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until now, you have been constantly rebelling against him.
8. Even at Mount Sinai you made the lord so angry he was ready to destroy you.
9. This happened when I was on the mountain receiving the tablets of stone inscribed with the words of the covenant that the lord had made with you. I was there for forty days and forty nights, and all that time I ate no food and drank no water.
10. The lord gave me the two tablets on which God had written with his own finger all the words he had spoken to you from the heart of the fire when you were assembled at the mountain.
11. “At the end of the forty days and nights, the lord handed me the two stone tablets inscribed with the words of the covenant.
12. Then the lord said to me, ‘Get up! Go down immediately, for the people you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted gold and made an idol for themselves!’
13. “The lord also said to me, ‘I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.