⁶Both we and our ancestors have sinned;
   we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly.
⁷Our ancestors, when they were in Egypt,
   did not consider your wonderful works;
they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
   but rebelled against the Most High^* at the Red Sea.^*
19They made a calf at Horeb
   and worshipped a cast image.
²⁰They exchanged the glory of God^*
   for the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹They forgot God, their Saviour,
   who had done great things in Egypt,
²²wondrous works in the land of Ham,
   and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.^*
23Therefore he said he would destroy them—
   had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him,
   to turn away his wrath from destroying them.