18. “Even when they made a moulded calf for themselves, and said, ‘This is your mighty one that brought you up out of Mitsrayim,’ and worked great blasphemies,
19. yet You, in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. The column of the cloud did not turn away from them by day to lead them on the way, nor the column of fire by night to give them light in the way they were to go.
20. “You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
21. “And for forty years You sustained them in the wilderness – they lacked not. Their garments did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
22. “And You gave them reigns and peoples, and apportioned them their lot. So they took possession of the land of Siḥon, and the land of the sovereign of Ḥeshbon, and the land of Og̅ sovereign of Bashan.
23. “And You increased their children as the stars of the heavens, and brought them into the land which You had said to their fathers to go in and possess.