Deuteronomy 9:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹³ Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen that this people is indeed a stubborn 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 more numerous than they.’

¹⁵ So I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was ablaze; the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.