When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the <sc>Lordsc> your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.<n id="1" />p>

The foreigners<n id="1" /> who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

Then they took<n id="1" /> some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, &#8220;The land that the <sc>Lordsc> our God is about to give us is good.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So I turned and went down the mountain while it<n id="1" /> was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made &#8211; they are still there, just as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded me.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.p>

And he said to me, &#8220;Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.&#8221;<n id="1" />

As for your sinful thing<n id="1" /> that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down,<n id="2" /> ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food,<n id="1" /> and you may use it to build siege works<n id="2" /> against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.p>

and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water,<n id="1" /> to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown.<n id="2" /> There at the wadi they are to break the heifer&#8217;s neck.

Then you must affirm before the <sc>Lord your Godsc>, &#8220;A wandering<n id="1" /> Aramean<n id="2" /> was my ancestor,<n id="3" /> and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number,<n id="4" /> but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

They will besiege all of your villages<n id="1" /> until all of your high and fortified walls collapse &#8211; those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you.