5. He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,
6. so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
7. Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
8. They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
9. The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;
10. they did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.
11. They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
12. He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13. He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand up like a wall.
14. He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
15. He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
16. he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.