8 Also ^ain Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.  ‡

9 ^aWhen I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and ^bforty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.  ‡

12 “Then the Lord said to me, ^a‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have ^bquickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’  ‡

13 “Furthermore ^athe Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed ^bthey are a stiff-necked people.  ‡