5. He established a testimony in Jacoband appointed a law in Israel,which he commanded our fathersto teach to their children,
6. that the next generation might know them,the children yet unborn,and arise and tell them to their children,
7. so that they should set their hope in Godand not forget the works of God,but keep his commandments;
8. and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation,a generation whose heart was not steadfast,whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9. The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
10. They did not keep God’s covenant,but refused to walk according to his law.
11. They forgot his worksand the wonders that he had shown them.
12. In the sight of their fathers he performed wondersin the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
13. He divided the sea and let them pass through it,and made the waters stand like a heap.
14. In the daytime he led them with a cloud,and all the night with a fiery light.
15. He split rocks in the wildernessand gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
16. He made streams come out of the rockand caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17. Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.