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Rh :And our fathers have told us,
 * We will not hide from their children,
 * Telling to the generation to come the praises of the ,
 * And His strength, and His wondrous works that He hath done.


 * For He established a testimony in Jacob,
 * And appointed a law in Israel,
 * Which He commanded our fathers,
 * That they should make them known to their children;
 * That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born;
 * Who should arise and tell them to their children,
 * That they might put their confidence in God,
 * And not forget the works of God,
 * But keep His commandments;
 * And might not be as their fathers,
 * A stubborn and rebellious generation;
 * A generation that set not their heart aright,
 * And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.


 * The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow,
 * That turned back in the day of battle.
 * They kept not the covenant of God,
 * And refused to walk in His law;
 * And they forgot His doings,
 * And His wondrous works that He had shown them.
 * Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers,
 * In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
 * He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through;
 * And He made the waters to stand as a heap.
 * By day also He led them with a cloud,
 * And all the night with a light of fire.
 * He cleaved rocks in the wilderness,
 * And gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep.
 * He brought streams also out of the rock,
 * And caused waters to run down like rivers.


 * Yet went they on still to sin against Him,
 * To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
 * And they tried God in their heart
 * By asking food for their craving.
 * Yea, they spoke against God;
 * They said 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
 * Behold, He smote the rock, that waters gushed out,
 * And streams overflowed;
 * Can He give bread also?
 * Or will He provide flesh for His people?'
 * Therefore the heard, and was wroth;
 * And a fire was kindled against Jacob,
 * And anger also went up against Israel;
 * Because they believed not in God,
 * And trusted not in His salvation.
 * And He commanded the skies above,
 * And opened the doors of heaven;
 * And He caused manna to rain upon them for food,
 * And gave them of the corn of heaven.
 * Man did eat the bread of the mighty;
 * He sent them provisions to the full.
 * He caused the east wind to set forth in heaven;
 * And by His power He brought on the south wind.
 * He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust,