⁷ Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; ^(A)from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. ⁸ Even ^(B)at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you. ⁹ When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; ^(C)I neither ate bread nor drank water. ¹⁰ The Lord gave me the two tablets of stone ^(D)written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. ¹¹ It came about ^(E)at the end of forty days and nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. ^12 (F)Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly. They have ^(G)quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.’

²² For I did not ^(A)speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. ²³ But this is ^[a]what I commanded them, saying, ‘^(B)Obey My voice, and ^(C)I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may ^(D)be well with you.’ ²⁴ Yet they ^(E)did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and ^[b](F)went backward and not forward. ²⁵ Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have ^(G)sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them. ²⁶ Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but ^(H)stiffened their neck; they ^(I)did more evil than their fathers.