Deuteronomy 9:11-14

11“At the end of the forty days and nights, the Lord handed me the two stone tablets inscribed with the words of the covenant.

12Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up! Go down immediately, for the people you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted gold and made an idol for themselves!’

13“The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.

14Leave me alone so I may destroy them and erase their name from under heaven. Then I will make a mighty nation of your descendants, a nation larger and more powerful than they are.’