Deuteronomy 9:13-17

The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a stubborn people.

Leave Me alone, that I may destroy them and wipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

“So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a cast metal image of a calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way that the Lord had commanded you.

So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my two hands, and smashed them to pieces before your eyes!