12. Then the Lord said to me, "Get going! Get down from here quickly because your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have ruined everything! They couldn’t wait to turn from the path I commanded them! They’ve made themselves an idol out of cast metal."
13. The Lord said more to me: "I have seen this people. Look! What a stubborn people they are!
14. Now stand back. I am going to wipe them out. I will erase their name from under heaven, then I will make a nation out of you—one stronger and larger than they were."
15. So I went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire. The two covenant tablets were in my two hands.
16. It was then that I saw how you sinned against the Lord your God: you made yourselves a calf, an idol made of cast metal! You couldn’t wait to turn from the path the Lord commanded you!
17. I grabbed the two tablets and threw them down with my own hands, shattering them while you watched.
18. Then I fell before the Lord as I had done the previous forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water, all because of the sin that you had committed by doing such evil in the Lord’s sight, infuriating him.