Deuteronomy 9:12-16 »Jehovah said to me: ‘Go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them. They have made a cast-idol for themselves.’

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² »Jehovah said to me: ‘Go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them. They have made a cast-idol for themselves.’ ¹³ »‘Jehovah spoke further to me: ‘I have seen this people. They are a very stubborn people. ¹⁴ »‘Leave me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ ¹⁵ »So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire. I carried the two stone tablets of the covenant in my two hands. ¹⁶ »I saw that you had indeed sinned against Jehovah your God. You made yourselves an idol, cast in the shape of a calf. You turned aside quickly from the way Jehovah had commanded you.