Deuteronomy 9:7-24
7“Remember, do not forget how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness; afrom the day that you went out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. 8“Even aat Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you. 9“When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh had cut with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; aI neither ate bread nor drank water. 10“And Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone awritten by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which Yahweh had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. 11“Now it happened aat the end of forty days and nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 12“aThen Yahweh said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, 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 a molten image for themselves.’ 13“aYahweh spoke further to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, 1they are a 2,bstiff-necked people. 14‘aLet Me alone, that I may destroy them and bblot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than they.’
15“aSo I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 16“And I saw that you had indeed sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which Yahweh had commanded you. 17“And I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and shattered them before your eyes. 18“aAnd I fell down before Yahweh, bas at the first, forty days and nights; cI neither ate bread nor drank water dbecause of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of Yahweh to provoke Him to anger. 19“For aI was afraid of the anger and the wrath with which Yahweh was provoked against you in order to destroy you, bbut Yahweh listened to me that time also. 20“And Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time. 21“aNow I took your 1sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.
22“Again at aTaberah and at bMassah and at cKibroth-hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath. 23“When Yahweh sent you from aKadesh-barnea, saying, ‘bGo up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the 1command of Yahweh your God; cyou did not believe Him, and you did not listen to His voice. 24“aYou have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day I knew you.