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I conducted you through & sea, at the beginning

gave to you soft passage, Moshe for the leader of

& Aaron for the priest; I gave to you light

in the fire, great interests they have made I among you,

but for forgot me & is triumphed not in my name

for destroying your enemies; I had a pity on your mournings,

gave to you a bread of angels, cleft the rock for your water,

covered you with leaves; I shared among you the fruitful earth,

he threw outside those that squandered there,

evicted from their homes & families

legal conflict for property rights debating

but you blaspheme my name, would not obey

the poet who composed the Torah as a soldier might,

believing in concrete truths, absolute & absolve