^{12 Ref} And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the people you have taken out of Egypt have given themselves over to evil; they have quickly been turned from the way in which I gave them orders to go; they have made themselves a metal image.

^{13 Ref} And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

^{14 Ref} Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

^{15 Ref} So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.

^{16 Ref} And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.