20 Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a grass-eating ox.
21 They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt—
22 miracles in the land of Ham, awesome things by the Sea of Reeds.
23 So He commanded their extermination, had not Moses, His chosen one, stood in the breach before Him, to turn His wrath from destroying them.
24 Then they scorned the pleasing land— they did not trust in His word.
25 Instead, they grumbled in their tents. They would not listen to Adonai’s voice.
26 Therefore He swore to them that He would make them fall in the desert,