Deuteronomy 9:11-14

11Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

12And he said to me, “Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.”

13Moreover, he said to me, “I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!

14Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”