¹³ “You came down on Mount Sinai;^(A) you spoke^(B) to them from heaven.^(C) You gave them regulations and laws that are just^(D) and right, and decrees and commands that are good.^{(E) 14} You made known to them your holy Sabbath^(F) and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses. ¹⁵ In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven^(G) and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock;^(H) you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand^(I) to give them.^(J)

¹⁶ “But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked,^(K) and they did not obey your commands.^{(L) 17} They refused to listen and failed to remember^(M) the miracles^(N) you performed among them. They became stiff-necked^(O) and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery.^(P) But you are a forgiving God,^(Q) gracious and compassionate,^(R) slow to anger^(S) and abounding in love.^(T) Therefore you did not desert them,^{(U) 18} even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf^(V) and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.^(W)

¹⁹ “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon^(X) them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud^(Y) did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take. ²⁰ You gave your good Spirit^(Z) to instruct^(AA) them. You did not withhold your manna^(AB) from their mouths, and you gave them water^(AC) for their thirst. ²¹ For forty years^(AD) you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,^(AE) their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.^(AF)