12. Moreover, by a pillar of cloud You led them by day, and by a pillar of fire by night to light the way they should go.
13. You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from Heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
14. And You made known to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments, statutes, and a law through 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 and possess the land You had sworn to give them. [John 6:31-34.]
16. But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.
17. They refused to obey, nor were they mindful of Your wonders and miracles which You did among them; but they stiffened their necks and in their rebellion appointed a captain, that they might return to their bondage [in Egypt]. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great steadfast love; and You did not forsake them.
18. Even when they had made for themselves a molten calf and said, This is your god, who brought you out of Egypt, and had committed great and contemptible blasphemies,
19. You in Your great mercy forsook them not in the wilderness; the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night to light the way they should go.
20. You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and withheld not Your manna from them, and gave water for their thirst.
21. Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.
22. Also You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. So they possessed the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.
23. Their children You also multiplied as the stars of heaven and brought them into the land which You told their fathers they should go in and possess.