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IV

19 At Horeb they fashioned a calf,(A)
    worshiped a metal statue.
20 They exchanged their glory[a]
    for the image of a grass-eating bull.
21 They forgot the God who had saved them,
    who had done great deeds in Egypt,(B)
22 Amazing deeds in the land of Ham,
    fearsome deeds at the Red Sea.
23 He would have decreed their destruction,
    had not Moses, his chosen one,
Withstood him in the breach[b]
    to turn back his destroying anger.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 106:20 Their glory: meant as a reference to God.
  2. 106:23 Withstood him in the breach: the image is that of Moses standing in a narrow break made in the wall to keep anyone from entering.