And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; 'but' they did not so.
and þei diden  fornycacioun, þat is, idolatrie, with alien goddis, and worschipiden hem. Soone þei forsoken þe weie, bi which þe fadris of hem entriden; and þei herden þe comaundementis of þe Lord, and diden alle thingis contrarie.