¹² Then the Lord told me, “Get up and go down quickly from here, because the people you brought out from Egypt are ·ruining [corrupting] themselves. They have quickly turned away from ·what [^Lthe way] I commanded and have made an idol for themselves [^Ca golden calf; Ex. 32:3–4].”

¹³ The Lord said to me, “I have watched these people, and they are very ·stubborn [^Lstiff-necked]! ¹⁴ Get away so that I may destroy them and ·make the whole world forget who they are [^Lblot off their name from under heaven]. Then I will make another nation from you that will be bigger and stronger than they are.”