Deuteronomy 9:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹¹ At the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. ¹² Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have been quick to turn from the way that I commanded them; they have cast an image for themselves.’ ¹³ Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen that this people is indeed a stubborn people.