6 so that the next generation would know them.Children yet to be born ⌊would learn them⌋.They will grow up and tell their children
7 to trust God, to remember what he has done,and to obey his commands.
8 Then they will not be like their ancestors,a stubborn and rebellious generation.Their hearts were not loyal.Their spirits were not faithful to God.
9 The men of Ephraim, well-equipped with bows ⌊and arrows⌋,turned ⌊and ran⌋ on the day of battle.
10 They had not been faithful to God’s promise.They refused to follow his teachings.
11 They forgot what he had done—the miracles that he had shown them.
12 In front of their ancestors he performed miraclesin the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.