¹³ And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people^(A), and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! ¹⁴ Let me alone,^(B) so that I may destroy them and blot out^(C) their name from under heaven.^(D) And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”

¹⁵ So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.^(E)