Neh 9:16-21 | ESV | STEP | But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments .

Nehemiah 9:16-21

16 “But they and our fathers ^aacted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. 17 They refused to obey ^band were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, ^cgracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them. 18 Even ^dwhen they had made for themselves a golden ^{▼▼Hebrew metal} calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ ^fand had committed great blasphemies, 19 you ^gin your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. ^hThe pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, ⁱnor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go. 20 ^jYou gave your good Spirit to instruct them ^kand did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. 21 ^lForty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.