^{12 Ref} and Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go down, hasten from this, for thy people hath done corruptly, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt; they have turned aside hastily out of the way which I have commanded them -- they have made to themselves a molten thing!

^{13 Ref} `And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it `is';

^{14 Ref} desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty and numerous than it.

^{15 Ref} `And I turn, and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands,

^{16 Ref} and I see, and lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah your God; ye have made to yourselves a molten calf; ye have turned aside hastily out of the way which Jehovah hath commanded you.

¹⁷ `And I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes,

^{18 Ref} and I throw myself before Jehovah, as at first, forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk, because of all your sins which ye have sinned, by doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry.

^{19 Ref} `For I have been afraid because of the anger and the fury with which Jehovah hath been wroth against you, to destroy you; and Jehovah doth hearken unto me also at this time.

^{20 Ref} `And with Aaron hath Jehovah shewed himself very angry, to destroy him, and I pray also for Aaron at that time;

^{21 Ref} and your sin, which ye have made -- the calf -- I have taken, and I burn it with fire, and beat it, grinding well till that it `is' small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount.

^{22 Ref} `And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth: