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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,
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and you made known your holy sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through your servant Moses.
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For their hunger you gave them bread from heaven, and for their thirst you brought water for them out of the rock, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you swore to give them.
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"But they and our ancestors acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks and did not obey your commandments;
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they refused to obey, and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them; but they stiffened their necks and determined to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.
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Even when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, "This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and had committed great blasphemies,
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you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go.
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You gave your good spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and gave them water for their thirst.
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Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
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And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, and allotted to them every corner, so they took possession of the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.
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You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.