This translation is from the New American Standard Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided immediately below the scriptural text.
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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. 8They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and have sacrificed to it and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’” 9The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are an obstinate people.10Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.”
11Then Moses entreated the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and change Your mind about doing harm to Your people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’” 14So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.
15Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets which were written on both sides; they were written on one side and the other. 16The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing engraved on the tablets. 17Now when Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a sound of war in the camp.” 18But he said,
“It is not the sound of the cry of triumph,
Nor is it the sound of the cry of defeat;
But the sound of singing I hear.”
19It came about, as soon as Moses came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain. 20He took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.
21Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought such great sin upon them?”
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corrupted = שָׁחַת = šāḥaṯ Blue Letter Bible to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay; to be marred, be spoiled, be injured, be ruined, be rotted; act wickedly; pervert
quickly = מַהֵר = mahēr Blue Letter Bible hurrying, speedy, swift, hastening; quickly, speedily; hasteth, hastily, at once, quickly, soon, speedily, suddenly;
turned aside = סוּר = sûr Blue Letter Bible to turn aside, depart; to be removed; to come to an end; depose; retract, abolish; to be taken away; to turn off; eschew; pluck away, put away; made to depart, thrust away; cause to turn aside, depart
way = דֶּרֶךְ = dereḵ Blue Letter Bible way, road, distance, journey, manner; path; mode; habit, way; course of life; mode of action
commanded = צָוָה = ṣāvâ Blue Letter Bible command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order; to constitute, enjoin; appoint; put, (set) in order; delegate
obstinate = קָשֶׁה = qāšê Blue Letter Bible hard, cruel, severe, obstinate; difficult; fierce, intense, vehement; stubborn, stiff of neck, stiff-necked; churlish; heavy, impudent; sorrowful; in trouble; firm, fast; difficult; severe; rough; relentless
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