³ God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was· I ·able to do as you^◦ have done? Then their spirit slackened from upon him when he spoke this word.

⁸ they have turned·​·aside hastily from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which made thee to come up out of the land of Egypt.