4. We will not hide them from their children, but we will tell to the generation to come the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonderful works that He has performed.
5. For He established a testimony (an express precept) in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, commanding our fathers that they should make [the great facts of God's dealings with Israel] known to their children,
6. That the generation to come might know them, that the children still to be born might arise and recount them to their children,
7. That they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but might keep His commandments
8. And might not be as their fathers–a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their hearts aright nor prepared their hearts to know God, and whose spirits were not steadfast and faithful to God.
9. The children of Ephraim were armed and carrying bows, yet they turned back in the day of battle.
10. They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk according to His law
11. And forgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them.
12. Marvelous things did He in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided].
13. He divided the [Red] Sea and caused them to pass through it, and He made the waters stand like a heap. [Exod. 14:22.]
14. In the daytime also He led them with a [pillar of] cloud and all the night with a light of fire. [Exod. 13:21; 14:24.]