5. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
6. That the generation to come might know them, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children,
7. And that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of ·God but observe his commandments;
8. And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with ·God
9. The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
10. They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law;
11. And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.
12. In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
13. He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;
14. And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
15. He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
16. And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17. Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
18. And they tempted ·God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
19. And they spoke against God they said, Is ·God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
20. Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?