12. By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.
13. You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
14. and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.
15. You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.
16. “But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.
17. They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.