Deuteronomy 9:12-14

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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.’^{(A) 13} Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen that this people is indeed a stubborn people.^{(B) 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 more numerous than they.’^(C)