16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their necks and did not hearken unto thy commandments

17 and refused to hear; neither did they remember thy wonders that thou hadst done among them, but hardened their necks and in their rebellion [thought] to appoint a leader to return to their bondage; but thou [art] a God of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercy, and for thou didst not leave them.

18 Even when they had made themselves a molten calf and said, This [is] thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had committed great abominations;