6. We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.
7. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.
8. And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his power known.
9. And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.
10. And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11. And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left.
12. And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.
13. They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsels.
14. And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.
15. And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls.
16. And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord.
17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.
18. And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.
19. They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.
20. And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.
21. They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,
22. wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.
23. And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
24. And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word,
25. and they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.
26. And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;