Nehemiah 9:14-16

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁴ and thou didst make known to them thy holy sabbath and command them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses thy servant. ¹⁵ Thou didst give them bread from heaven for their hunger and bring forth water for them from the rock for their thirst, and thou didst tell them to go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

¹⁶ “But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey thy commandments;