⁴ They didn’t see what God did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots—how he drowned them in the Red Sea as they were chasing you, and how the Lord has kept them powerless against you until this very day! ⁵ They didn’t see how the Lord cared for you time and again through all the years you were wandering in the wilderness, until your arrival here. ⁶ They weren’t there when Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, descendants^[a] of Reuben) sinned, and the earth opened up and swallowed them, with their households and tents and all their belongings, as all Israel watched!