7. The Lord spoke to Moses, “Go, and get down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
8. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molded calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, which has brought you up from the land of Egypt.’ ”
9. Then the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and certainly, it is a stiff-necked people.
10. Now therefore let Me alone, so that My wrath may burn against them and I may destroy them. And I will make of you a great nation.”
11. But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, why does Your wrath burn against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?