¹⁸ even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf^(A) and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.^(B)

¹⁹ “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon^(C) them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud^(D) did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take. ²⁰ You gave your good Spirit^(E) to instruct^(F) them. You did not withhold your manna^(G) from their mouths, and you gave them water^(H) for their thirst. ²¹ For forty years^(I) you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,^(J) their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.^(K)