12. He told me, “Leave right away. Your people whom you brought out of Egypt have ruined ⌊everything⌋. They’ve quickly turned from the way I commanded them to live. They’ve made an idol for themselves.”
13. The Lord also said to me, “I’ve seen these people, and they are impossible to deal with.
14. Leave me alone! I’ll destroy them and wipe their name off the earth. Then I’ll make you into a nation larger and stronger than they are.”
15. So I turned and went down the mountain while it was still burning with fire. I was carrying the two tablets with the promise on them.
16. Then I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God. You had made a statue of a calf for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord commanded you to live.
17. I took the two tablets, threw them down, and smashed them in front of you.