Deuteronomy 9:14-16

Living Bible

^13-14 “‘Let me alone that I may destroy this evil, stubborn people!’ the Lord told me, ‘and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make a mighty nation of you, mightier and greater than they are.’

¹⁵ “I came down from the burning mountain, holding in my hands the two tablets inscribed with the laws of God. ¹⁶ There below me I could see the calf you had made in your terrible sin against the Lord your God. How quickly you turned away from him!