because they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.
for þei herden not þe vois of her Lord God, but þei braken his couenaunt; þei herden not, neþer diden alle thingis, whiche Moises, þe seruaunt of þe Lord, comaundide.