13. “Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.
14. Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’
15. “So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.