¹⁰ After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel.^{(A) 11} Then the Israelites did evil^(B) in the eyes of the Lord^(C) and served the Baals.^{(D) 12} They forsook the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods^(E) of the peoples around them.^(F) They aroused^(G) the Lord’s anger^(H)

²⁰ When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their ancestors,^(A) and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods^(B) and worship them,^(C) rejecting me and breaking my covenant.^(D)

¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors,^(A) and these people will soon prostitute^(B) themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake^(C) me and break the covenant I made with them.

¹⁴ But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked^(A) as their ancestors, who did not trust in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ They rejected his decrees and the covenant^(B) he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols^(C) and themselves became worthless.^(D) They imitated the nations^(E) around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”