Exodus 32:10-20

10 Now leave me alone. I'm so angry with them I am going to destroy them. Then I'll make you into a great nation."
11 But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God. "LORD," he said, "why are you so angry with your people whom you brought out of Egypt using your great power and mighty hand?
12 Don't let the Egyptians say, 'He was planning all along to kill them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth. That's why he brought them out [of our land].' Don't be so angry. Reconsider your decision to bring this disaster on your people.
13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You took an oath, swearing on yourself. You told them, 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all the land I spoke of. It will be their permanent possession.'"
14 So the LORD reconsidered his threat to destroy his people.
15 Moses turned and went down the mountain carrying the two tablets with God's words. They were written on both sides, front and back.
16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was God's writing inscribed on the tablets.
17 Then Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting. He said to Moses, "It's the sound of war in the camp!"
18 Moses replied, "It's not the sound of winners shouting. It's not the sound of losers crying. It's the sound of a wild celebration that I hear."
19 When he came near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. In a burst of anger Moses threw down the tablets and smashed them at the foot of the mountain.
20 Then he took the calf they had made, burned it, ground it into powder, scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.
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