39. And he remembered that they are flesh: with a spirit that goes forth and does not return.
40. How often did they provoke him in the desert and stir him to wrath in a waterless place?
41. And they turned back and tempted God, and they exasperated the Holy One of Israel.
42. They did not remember his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of the one troubling them.
43. Thus, he positioned his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Tanis.
44. And he turned their rivers into blood, along with their rain showers, so that they could not drink.
45. He sent among them the common fly, and it devoured them, and the frog, and it scattered them.
46. And he gave up their fruits to mold and their labors to the locust.
47. And he slew their vineyards with hail and their mulberry trees with severe frost.
48. And he delivered their cattle to the hail and their possessions to fire.
49. And he sent the wrath of his indignation among them: indignation and wrath and tribulation, sent forth by evil angels.
50. He made way for the path of his anger. He did not spare their souls from death. And he enclosed their beasts of burden in death.
51. And he struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt: the first-fruits of all their labor in the tabernacles of Ham.
52. And he took away his own people like sheep, and he led them through the wilderness like a flock.
53. And he led them out in hope, and they did not fear. And the sea covered their enemies.
54. And he led them to the mountain of his sanctification: the mountain that his right hand had acquired. And he cast out the Gentiles before their face. And he divided their land by lot to them, with a line of distribution.
55. And he caused the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
56. Yet they tempted and aggravated God Most High, and they did not keep his testaments.
57. And they turned themselves aside, and they did not serve the covenant. In the same manner as their fathers, they were turned backwards, like a crooked bow.
58. They impelled him to anger on their hills, and they provoked him to rivalry with their graven images.